FINDING A WIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 9

FINDING A WIFE.

CLAIMS FOR COMMISSION. FRIEND LOSES IN TWO WAYS. A lonely Frenchman of close on fifty years of age, M. Raillard, was seeking a business and a wife to look after it. He had much greater difficulty in finding a wife than a business, and in his perplexity he handed over the delicate mission to a frierid, M. .Netta. He sigued a document agreeing to pay M. Netta £IOO commission.

M. Netta, in his turn, entrusted the actual work of discovering a suitable lady to a man who, a reader on the Journal OJBciel, is appropriately named Dry. M. Netta agreed to pay M. Dry a pourboire of £25. A lady was found, and M. and Mme. Ilaillard went off on their honeymoon. But on their return the bridegroom refused to pay M. Netta his £IOO on the ground that as his wife was without a dot she wafj not the treasure for which he had stipulated. The Court to which M. Netta resorted rejected his claim, ruling that such a contract was contrary to public interest. Then M. Dry stepped forward in another Court and sued M. Netta for his £25. This tribunal upheld the validity of the claim as between the two agents. Ihus while the bridegroom has, escaped scotfree and gained a wife, albeit without a dowry, M. Netta has to pay £25 to M. Dry.