LADY MISSION WORKER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1922, Page 5

LADY MISSION WORKER.

ft MARRIES A CHINESE. NOW SEEKS SEPARATION. An unusual application for separation came before Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M., to-day, when a well educated Englishwoman, for whom Mr. Allan Moody appeared, sought separation from her husband, a Chinese named Shack Home (Mr. J. J. Sullivan). Mr. Moody said Mr=. Home belonged to the Ebenezer Faith Mission. She married defendant, and at first things seemed all right. His client was a woman of independent means, and it was after she made a will that her husband's conduct towards her changed. The wife gave evidence, accusing her husband of cruelty towards her. She 6aid: '"I am afraid for my life, and I have left him." Asked by Mr. Moody as to her husband's habits witness said he was constantly running the English down. Witness further stated that she asked her husband not to go to places of ill-repute, but he refused to agree. She volunteered the information that her husband told her he had a revelation from Almighty God to come to the Ebenezer Faith Mission. In answer to Mr. Sullivan witness said she married in Ma}-, 1921. "He asked mo five times," added the lady. Mr. Sullivan: You must have had faith ' when you married 'him. /" Complainant: He is the mo6t deceitful ' man I have ever met. We wanted a • missionary amongst the Chinese. He promised to come into the Mission work with mc. When we were married he ; wished to return to his trade. "You knew he had been married?" "Yes. I knew he had six children in . Hong Kong. I supported these." j Mr. Sullivan: And one son fought for the British Empire during the war, so ' this man must be loyal. Witness admitted she had told Rev. A. A. Murray she was getting on well enough with her husband. Tn the early stages of her married life she had told others the same. It was Mr. Home's fatilt that she could not live with him. She had seen her husband going to a house of ill-repute. Mr. Sullivan: On missionary work?-— Certainly not.