Singular Breach of Promise.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3616, 17 September 1890, Page 2

Singular Breach of Promise.

Tho Irish Tim,, London corres< : - pondent says we are promised a breaoh.. of promise case with some olements of freshment in it. The principals live in the cider Bhire, where the defendant owns a property." He u;-j*\ : young gentlenion of good family, tjLf . 1883 he became attached to the tiff—one of the many daughters of a charch dignitary, He made, his offer, and was accepted. The wedding day was appointed, but before the date waß reachod the bridegroom-elect got a bad spill from tho Baddle in the hunting fieldi He wbb laid up a long time, and when be was able to go about again the doctors ordered him o Inn„ „,,„ „„—_» TJ-

.. »uug uv» ivjugy, wi who uivajrnearly two years, spending a good, deal of the time in one of the colonies. Some time before his return an extraordinary oha'nge. appeared in tha- ; ' ' character of his letters to. -girl heleft behind him, They were written ' in such rambling and cxtravagfljir terms as to Buggest decided weakness of mind, Six or eight of tho letters were of this mi, and their: rehearsal in court is expeoted to be very diverting indoed, The defendant returned to Devon* 1 shire and home some eighteen months ago. He presented himself in a tattered dress, which be said he had r worn in the bush, He persisted in ' wearing this garb, and showed a 1 distressing change for the worse in bifL,- ' manner. He invited his lady-lovojfc' 1 her family, and other of his acquaint* ' ances to a garden party, He received 1 them in a suit of chain mail, and the ' guests found themselves in tho com- ' pahyofapolioeman from the village, > | a postman, the estate laborers, and i their families and othors, Music win 1 supplied by an organ-grinder hired 1 for tho occasion, The amusemont - was a series of wheel-barrow races, . with the ladies of lower degree seated in tho vehicles, and before the respjatv abilities.retired, their host, listingfliis • vizor, announced bis intention* to keep house in this good fashion of bringing the poor and their betters together in social union. His conduct 1 became so glaring that the young lady's parents, after having obtained medical opinion to the effect that tho , ancient hurt must hare permanently affected the young gentleman's head, wrote withdrawing their oonsont to tho marriage in the interests of their daughter's happiness, The letter 1 was acknowledged in curt but per- , fectly collected terras j the vagoriett - and absurdities of the defendant i ceased forthwith; ho resumed his . natural habits and utterances, and f when, last October, a lady whom ho - married in Australia appeared on the scone, nobody could doubt the perfect ' sanity with which he introduced her ) as his wife, The claim for damages i is based on the plea that defendant t obtained his reloase from the ongfiM^ r ment by falso pretences.' j|r