CHASING A HUSBAND ROUND THE WORLD.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 303, 18 June 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

CHASING A HUSBAND ROUND THE WORLD.

The most sensational chase for a husband on record has been in progress four months, with the wide world for a coursing ground and Klondyke the gaol. Mrs E. W. Lewis, a rich English woman is in the race to win, and two hours after she reached Vancouver the city knew her story, and she had the sympathy of the entire community. On arriving here Mrs Lewis placed her runaway husband's photograph in the hands of the police and steamer agents, and the picturo was at once recognised as of a passenger who shippod for Skagua on the Ningchow and made himself the centre of attraction among th© pacsengers by lighting cigars with dollar bills and throwing the burned ends overboard, occasionally varying the proformance by allowing the men nearest him to scramble for five dollar gold pieces. Mrs Lewis says her husband is erratic and not altogether responsible, and it is only a woman's love and devotion for her husband which urges the loyal wife to brave the dangers of a trip to Klondyke to minister to a mind diseased. A trivial domestic quarrel caused Lewis, who is highly connected with England, to swear he would " leave home and go to the end of the world." Mrs Lewis followed hor husbaud through England, South Africa, Australia, then to China where she sailed on the Ningchow for British Columbia. Mrs Lewis has left Vancouver by the steamer Centennial for the frozen North.