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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3462, 18 March 1890, Page 3

Extraordinary Maintenance ' Case. He Runs Away with his Niece. A case possessing some very strange features wbb investigated recently at the Collingwood Court, wben Joliii Ruston, a sawyer, was . sued by bis wife, Ellen Euston, for her maintenance and that of her seven children, Mrs Euston-appearod in Court witb au infant in' ber arms and a number of

, little children following.her, jj- Mr Lyons: Your Worships, has the defendant my proposition to jjnake/ I will- take my wife Jiome and provide for' her and her children, . . Mr Lyons then explained that some time ago the accused was charged with perjury. The particulars of the case vero that Bustou ran away from , his wife in Dnnedin, and arriving hero associated wilh his niece. Tho result of that association was that the niece was delivered, of a child, the defendant being the father of it. He . made a false declaration at tho time of registration of the birth of tho child, and he • was tried for perjury and acquitted. At that time it was mentioned that the defendant was supporting bis wife and children in New Zealanp. This, as a matter of fact, was untrue, as he failed to contribute anything towards their support. Mrs Huston then entered the witness-box and intormod the justices thatshohad boon married iodeferidant for 18 years. The, result of tho union was, that they had seven children. Tho accused leffc her'without : itf!y suppbrt,- add she had to do tho best she could to sustain her children. Wr Lyons',:. You were sent to Melbourne through the,charity of other iaiersons'!.,. _ \ r 'Witness: A .charity society'in Duuedin paid for my passago and that of my children. . Mr Lyons: Aivd did the' defendant giro you anything after,you came here? , Witness; A; little. H«: fust refused and wanted to take the bigger children and leave me to support the younger one; but I refused to accept tho offer,' ; 'He earns £3 a week. Mr Lyons ! As a matter of fact,

your Worships, bo wanted to take hia wife and cbiidrjn to tbe very house where bis niece or rather his mistress, waa living* The dofcndaul denied Ibis statement, \\\ >■ ; An order 'for 30s a 'week' with £1 Is costs. . , MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL. There is au old. sayingthat . physicians are n class of men who pour drugs, of lvhicht liey know littje, into bodies of-'which' 1 thoy- 1 *-linow j less, This is both true and unrue at the.'.same tiriio. ' There-" are good aiid poor lawyers, and and poor doctors.' The troublo with these medical gentlemen as • a profession is they -are clannish, and apt 'to be . fltonceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own,trade.by .outsiders who have never'studied medicine.' They therefore pay, by their' frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unices the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." Ail eminent physician—Br BrownBecjuard,''of Paris—states! the hci accurately when lie Bays: "The medical profession ore so bound up' in thoir self-confidence and conceit that _thcy allow tho diamond truths of scienco be picked 1 .top > by;'s poruons entirely outside thoir raiTks," We nivo a most interesting incident, which fllutstrates'lliis juiJortant truth. ~ steamship " Concordia" of tho DjJSlllsou Line,' sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, haviiig on board asa fireman amannamedllichardWado of Glasgow, He had been a iireman for fourteen years on various ships sail' in/ from; America, China and India, He had bSrno-.the hard and exhausting labour, aud liad been healthy and Btrong. Op the trip wo now naino he began for tbp first time to feel weak.qwl ill Bis appetite failed! arid ho'sutiorpd. from drowsiiite; Heartburn, 'r bad tasl'e in the mouth ' and, costiveness and ' irretrularity of tho bowels, ' Sometimes when at work he bad stacks' of giddiness , jwt supposed it to bo CfMiwfl- by thf