VERY MUCH MARRIED.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1210, 29 July 1884, Page 3

VERY MUCH MARRIED.

“• A shabbily-dressed man, over 50, and of a miserable appearance,” has been charged with marrying five wives, all of whom are living at the present moment. The amazement of the spectators, if not of “ the Court ” itself, seems lo have been aroused at him having persuaded anyone to marry him at all. His last investment in the matrimonial market was a lady with £SOO a year of her own, who is convinced, by the way, that all these charges aginst her 1 beloved consort are the result of a “conspiracy,” so that there seems no reason, judging from analogy, why this gentleman should not have gone on making hew and better marriages to the extreme limit of his existence but for the officious interference of the police. There must surely be some altraciion about mch an individual, which it would be worth the while of a student of human nature to inquire into. It is his rdle, we suppose, just now, to exhibit himself as an object of pity, since he plaintively besought the Magistrate to “ tend him to some Hospital,” but I have a notion that he can *• make up” so as to represent more characters than one. If his charms lie in his conversation, as those of Wilkes did—who, notwithstanding bis squint, used to boast that he was “ only n quarter of an hour behind the handsomest man in England” in making his way with the fair sex—the Police Court was hardly a place for the exhibition of them*, and there I tun inclined to think they do lie, I believe women of a certain class, and that not a low one, art more easily won over by “palaver” than' any other means. But a* all events this anything but gay Lothario seems to have mot with universal acceptance. It is fair to add that ho doss not seem to have deserted his wives. He distributed himself amongst them as well ss circumstances permitted ; but it struck each of them that his absences from home were “ rather frequent.” Correspondent of an Exchange.