Early Marriages.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 41, 22 February 1904, Page 3

Early Marriages.

COMMENT I'.V A RIVORt F, ('(!( ItT .lIUCE. (Ver I'ress Association.) HELLIXOTON, I■•.,!>. 20. II! till" liilllM- ('..111 IllJllis lliUlsen j*.-tiiione,l fin- u di voice from her. hu.v!«ral, Koieu linns, n. <m the grounds of desertion. I Vl'i I icrtn-r staled Unit when liileen \e,ur, „i u,ge, in lH'.iT. she was urarried to IVSp.yll-l.llt ; !L W.-IWiiu-inn will, 1i,.. pai'Mits' n.MNHI, 1,,.,- father being piv.vnl lit the ,mii-ria a -e. It.-sp,,-,,:!-.-,,1 line alkg.-d i„ 1i:,... led a drunken life. a1,,l iv.o jr..,-:, alter 11,.. i- , 1-,,-r husl„ai:,l can,.' li„i, H . alud said In- ■•hud ka;i enough of he, ami was ofi'." Since then she hail seen nothing of him. He was repor-tt-d to be in I>an.,evirk'c. hilt ini.piilies had failed to Ihul him. She was ill after his desertion. a'lJd ■lu-i- l,a-bv 11 months old, died. Mr .Jutili'ce Cooi.vr mnarked upon --the c-rimimtl coiv-luct of parents in consenting to such .arly marriages.'- A girl didn't know her ov, „ mm-.l at If, and .she was not lit t„ l„- ar children. 'I he petitioner nail not, at the time of her marriage, even cached the maximum school aire. \ K a (fuestion of dates was hnVvul it being necessary to prove live Years desertion, the can- was adjourned until next Friday for pro h.ctio-n of further evrdimee and certificates rclalini; to the birth amd death of the child.

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