A CHINESE WIFE DESERTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1766, 20 August 1884, Page 2

A CHINESE WIFE DESERTER.

Our roue)} respected P,M,, Mi Wheeler, (writes the Oqioo correspondent of the Advertiser) was waited upon a few days ago by a person named Mary Ah Fong, who applied foi a warrant against Mr Ah joug, on the ground that he intended to desert her. Jt appeared that the worthy Celestial had just returned from a trip to the Flowery Land, where, forgetting his conjugal obligations to marry, he had wickedly entered into a matrimo ijial contract with a fascinating daughter of tjie Sun. Hayfng to return or business matters (for our Mongolian is a man of means), the fact of his second marriage leaked out, and Mary became furious, and refused to be comforted, In every act of her fickle spouse she saw a hankering after her Chinese rival, until a£ length her feellings overcame her, and she took, action as above stated, In her interview with the P.M. the following is stated to have occurred:—P.M.—" Aro you married to Mr Ah Fong ?" Marv—" Yes; we were married by the Kev. Mr Bourke in the Courthouse I" P.M.—" Is your husdanfaOhristianl" Mary-" Don't know; but Ido know that before om marriage he'was properly ,' analysed,' ■ P.M.—-." And "the resjiilt f " Mary- ■" An adppteij cfoildV' It fs said! that the magistrate preserved, a solemn demeanour, not even the ghost pf a smile showing on his (aca—and granted the warrant at once. Some one has since suggested that Mary desired te convey the fact that her husband was properly " naturalised."