MARRIED IN HASTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 57, 25 July 1912, Page 8

MARRIED IN HASTE.

I RESULT OF ADVERTISEMENT. YOUNG MAN IN TROUBLE. TSf lelegr*pk—-Pre*« Aeaoeiation. Auckland, Tuesday. A young man, who was stated to be "a very decent lad," was charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning with haying failed to provide hie wife and child with adequate means of maintenance. ' The history of the case, as related by Mr. Matthews, was rather a pitiful one. The Society for the Protection of Women and Children had its attention drawn to the destitution of the young woman and her child in the case, and they were placed in a home while proceedings were instituted to bring the husband to book. In the interim, however, the conduct of the mother satisfied the society that she was not a fit and proper person to have the custody of the child, and ehe did not! seem at all inclined to stay under the restraint of the home. Consequently, a fuller statement of the circumstances of the marriage having come out, Mr. Matthews did not freai for an order -of maintenance against the husband for the mother.. The child, though illegitimate, and not that of the defendant husband, would have to be provided for, and the husband since the marriage was legally responsible.

Mr. Staunton, who appeared for the husband, stated, in reply to a question by Mr. Cutten, S.M., that the husband had come to know the girl through a matrimonial advertisement which he had answered. She then had the child, but he was induced in March last to marry her. Since then her conduct had been unsatisfactory. It was agreed that Mr. Matthews should make an application to have the manager of the home constituted the child's guardian, and that he should also seek an order requiring the husband to contribute 5s a week towards its keep the young man agreeing to that course!