Wellington Breach of Promise Case.

Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3807, 21 October 1882, Page 4

Wellington Breach of Promise Case.

Alluding to tho defendant in the Wellington hreaoh of proraiso case, tho " Wow Zealand Times" saya: "In the last of two periods of probation, the fair out) betrayed the fact that she was possessed of a temper, and actually declined to clean Mr Ley bourne's boots iv the event of his honouring her with his hand and heart, iser conduct in this respect is the more open to censure when it is remembered that Mr Leybourne pointed out to her that it was utterly beneath the dignity of a gentleman holding his position in the Civil Service to clean his own boots J Another unfortunate breach was created by the accidental spilling of soma hop beer which Miss Swincy ivipad up with Mr Leybourne's tea towel. He naturally felt that a woman who could desecrate bis tea towel by wiping the floor with it must be lamentably ignorant of domestic duties, and when Miss Swiney also made na9ty sneering remarks about his two and sixpenny tenement, he felt it bis duty to speak strongly to her. This he did, and after a series of tiffs "all was over." The jury, howevor, found that Miss Swiney had not consented to the breaking of? of tb.B connection, aud what with damages and costs the defendant will have to pay a tolerably largo sum, As ho stood in Court yestarday, gloomily sniffing at a bunch o! wall-flowers, ho was scarcely regarded as an object of sympathy, and few persons, after reading the evidence, will be found to pity him in his present position."