BLACK AND WHITE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9958, 30 April 1918, Page 6

BLACK AND WHITE

AN UNHAPPY UNION. It is seldom" that a marriage between a person belonging .to, a white race and one from a coloured race turns out happily. An instance was exemplified at the Magistrate’s Court ■ yesterday, when a young white woman proceeded against Abraham i Whalley Mobamed Salaman, her husbapd, for failing to comply with a maintenance _ order in. support of his wife " and child, arrears of which amounted to £5 2s 8d according to the complainant,. Mr J. S. Barton appeared: for' the plaintiff and Mr W. li. Ivothenbnrg fpr the defendant. 4 . The parties were married in 1915 and subsequently separated. The defendant had paid certain amounts under an. order that was made against him, and denied that he owed the amount claimed. The complainant-/undot cross-examina-tion, stated she was not * addicted to drink, did not break up the furniture or the bouse, smashed mockery, or chop down the doors. The only time she partook of 'drink was with her busband. ■ ft ... The defendant " said he w|s an aniline dve manufacturer; ,> and had learnt his trade in Germany in 1901. -I On accoimt of the poisons he had to deal with his health was . affected. On 'the instruction of his medical adviser he had removed to Auckland, where ho had been very ill. When his wife left him she took furniture belonging to him valued at .£IOO. This she , had sold cw smalt amounts and had retained theemoney. The defendant had hot eyon left 1 ft bed to lie en. ■ -1 ■ ... , Mr S. E. McCarthy. S.M.. adjourned the case for two .weeks in order that further evidence might he ayauaolc, and in order that the defendant, might go to Auckland to get. certain receipts which ho said he had in his possession.