MAINTENANCE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 169, 17 July 1914, Page 2

MAINTENANCE DAY.

GIRL-WIFE'S TROUBLES. OL© CASE REVWED. The customary siories of maintenance and! imitrimioniaJ eases -watt dealt with by Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.tM., at the Magistrate's Court to-day. IRosalinc Eden (Mr. A. G. QuarWoj-) ami Perry Eden (IVIt. .T. K. J-miKkm), a ■young couple whose troubles had been dis-eus-Sed on several previous occasions., appeared again 'before tine Court on the wife's ttorapku-nil that her husband had disoibeyed a .maintenance order, the arrears bi'.ing over C 2. Mrs. Eden. who had! previously told the Court that she was) only 17 years of age, 'also complained that, her husband had molested her by following her and whistling. Sire stated that she was living with a faanilv at Devonport, Hint owing to her hiitibamd's failure to comply with the maintenance ordfl- she was now about .Oi in debt for .hoard.

After considerable diii-cnssion, (Mrs. Edinn agreed to a rJUggeetion toy the Magistrate Ural she sihoukl Kravo her pretvent abode for St. Mary's \Uome» a.t Oealnrhii. and the case was- then adjourned to smahle counsel to make the neonps-ary arrangements. NT)! .An adjourned case in -which Mrs. Isabella Tilly sought a- separation from her hiMbaml. William Hwnrv Clvarloß Tilly, e.nr.c. up again for hearing. 'Mr. AY. P. Kiuk-an appeared for the complainant, and- Mr. I-'. S. (l_.uld.ing for the defend*ant. IWhen the ease »is first heard it wats stati'd that Mrs. Tilly had left her husband's farm in the Watka.t.o -and was living in Town. In reply to the Magistrate she reiterated her earlier statement that she was unwilling to go hack to him. The husband, when quewtiorcexl as to h'n* attitude in t.he matter, again said thai, if his wife cared to come back he would provid-e a honre for her. IMr. Kettle was unable lo get the witness- to say that he really uesired. to hav-o his wife, 'back, ami) after some discussion :.is Worship decided not to make a reparation order, flue hutabandl was ordered to pay his wife 10/ a week, and to ke-.'p an exact account of his earnings and expenditure. "TD SOONER jVBG." t.Mrs. Agnes Iveale.y (Mr. E. J. Prendcrgast) applied for a separation from John .lamiH Kvalcy nn the usual grounds- of alleged drunkenness, cruelty, and failure to provide for her. Mrs. Kealey's complaint against her huoband, to whom rflur liad ibeen married for sixteen wars, was that he was addicted to drink, and that he had threatened her. On Saturday night last lvo caanc home and threatened her t-o that Rhe had to call in the policy, and on Monday she left him. He had ibee.n prohibited twice, and fche had oneo started separation proceedings against, him. On one occasion he had thrca-Kined t.i "kill the lot. of them," meaning herself and the two children. -I've tried hard to put up with him for the pas; eleven years." t-'h-c added, "and now I wouldn't go .back to him if he offered mc £20 a week. I'd sooner beg mv bread l —that's the truth."

■The husband, who was not represented by counsel, said' that he could recollect, only one prohibition order against him. andl that six years ago. lie was i'mvd i.'"2 for breaking it. and to.ok -out his fine by a week in gaol. He denied' the suggestion that he frequently went home drunk, or that he had been persistently cruel.