A CURIOUS CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1352, 13 April 1883, Page 3

A CURIOUS CASE.

An old. man ; named James Robert Bond, who emigrated- to Australia tljirty-five '.years; ago, .'but iu 1861 eloped with a widow named Merrough, leaving 'his ' Wife, arid three children behind him, provoked a pleasant expose of his personal delinquencies by bringing an action at the last Exeter Assizes to recover dlmiages from his soil John Bond for an alleged assault. Some ' years [after the desertion, : his wife 'and children he became entitled to some property,-' and returned ■■ to • England where the wife ; obtained - a judical separation, but afterwards became a ■ lunatic. The children endeavored to persuade their father to' abandon his connection with the woman with whom he had eloped, but he refused-to do v. bo. Two years ago he inherited some • * money; and the whole family resided to- -! • getherfor some time at Starcross. He, ■ ■■; however, soon tried to turn his wife -■? .' and daughters out of doors, and when }••: • they would not , go.he establish^his mistress in the cottage, and, instructed the,servant to regard her as' the head of the household. 1 -In itoycquehce.of his'treatment his wife, who 'had in a • great measure recovered, again became ; insane. Her son had a stormy interview with his father, but was assaulted with a fire-shovel.' A neighbor came ' tfe' his Assistance, and while he held the son took 'his mistress by the • *- * neck and rati her into .the street, telling" her ho would-'- iio longer allow his ■ mother to be irsulted by her presence. •• 'The villagers then assembled, and drummed the disreputable pair out of ,tho village. The action resulted in the son's favor;

live in Julia's eyes," said an afi, fected dandy in' Column's hearing. "I «.'t wonder at it," replied George, nee I observed she had a stye in m when I saw her last." Futility of Q, E. D.—Mamma (who has been vainly struggling to help Tommy -with i his Euclid),—" What rubbish it is to be sure! All this bother to prove that A B O'is equal to 0B D; 'a? if anybody in their senses would eyer say it wasn't f ,!if Now, ipy. dears, you must dp as vtlie Romans dp," said old map Sbrogr gings to his daughters, on their arrival in Italv. And the first thing they saw ' was a boy trying to stand on his head in the corner of a railway station,