A NEW SOUTH WALES ENOCH ARDEN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 369, 1 July 1874, Page 3

A NEW SOUTH WALES ENOCH ARDEN.

', The particulars of a somewhat hard case, with Enoch-Arden-like surroundings, has transpired (says the ' Newcastle Pilot ') at Waratah. home thirteen years back the husband of a woman residing at Waratah, left his wife, who, by hard struggling, managed to amass some little property, besides keeping and educating a large family of children. After some eight or nine years had elapsed, the woman, nofc having heard < from her husband during the whole period, advertised for the "missing link," but without avail, and about three years back ska married, ior the second time, a respectable and industrious coalminer of the district. ' After two children had been added to the earlier formed circle, the wanderer returned from another Colony, and, it is said, claims j some little landed property that had been accumulated during his absence. - The additional hardship of the case is that with the property is included a new house, said to have been built out of the harl earnings of husband number two. Whether the fist husband intends claiming both wife and property does not appear, but the later consort is still in possession.