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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 14, 16 January 1914, Page 7

A hueband has to maintain his wife whether she behaves well or badly according to the ruling of a Wellington magistrate. There was a natter before the Court m which a wife, who had been in receipt of maintenance money from her husband, had telegraphed to him to the effect that she did not want any more money from him; that she had cold his furniture and could keep herself The magistrate observed that the telegram did not relieve the man of responsibility to keep his wife. "The hueband has to maintain his wife," he remarked rmm ■el: "If she behaves Btrate: "Whether she does or not There is only one escape, and that is divorce" Counsel: "Do yoa mean to say, your Worshrp, that if a woman leaveY home and refuses to li«j with her husband, he is bound to maintain herf* The man* trate replied that if *c did arenlroMe than that the hrtW """• ■■*— *rl* Tniiirtf mhu . J