"TOO QUIET."
[Peb United Peess Association.]
TIMARU, March 10.
At the District Court to-day an action was heard before Judge Haselden and a special jury, in which Ruth Benbow, the daughter of a small farmer at Temuka, claimed from Robert John Edgar, a young farmer, £SOO damages for breach of promise of marriage. The couple became engaged in 1904, but the defendant broke off the engagement in October last, only to renew it a fortnight later. He finally refused to marry plaintiff on November 22, 1908. The principal reason given for the breach, was that the girl was too quiet. The jury awarded. £2OQ -damages.
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Evening Star, Issue 14004, 10 March 1909, Page 4
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