A SOCIETY ISLANDS DIVORCE SUIT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1684, 10 January 1888, Page 2

A SOCIETY ISLANDS DIVORCE SUIT.

King Pomare, the fifth ruler of the s Society Islands and the islands that lie adjacent thereby, has instituted an action in divorce against his wife Queen Johanna, who is aged about fifteen. Parisian lawers are hard at work upon the case, as the youthful Queen lately came to the Erench metropolis in order to place her interests in the hands of a wise man in the Western world. Her Majesty’s version is that her Boyal husband is in sad need of a little advice from the apostles of the Blue Sibbou movement. King Pomare is, in fact, of a pronouncedly vinous disposition, and his conduct to his spouse when in his cups has been anything but royal, not to say gentlemanly. His “goingson” were so bad that his youthful spouse was constrained to fly for protection to her mother-in-law. On the other hand, the royal respondent is accused of having had a lover in the shape of a GUllic “ salt ” in blue jumper and loose trousers, who was one of the crew of a Erench man-of-war. Admiral Serres, the commander-in-chief of the station, did his best to effect a recon* ciliation between the spouses, and the two were about to forget each other’s peccadilloes, when the young Queen learned that her husband was going from bad to worse, and that he was not only growing fonder of “baccy and rum,” but that he was in a fair way to beat the Mormon prophets in the matter of polygamy. This interesting divorce suit will be heard 'before the tribunal of Papeiti, in Otaheite.