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NZ Truth, Issue 132, 28 December 1907, Page 6

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A Woman's Sad Plight.," ; Euphemia Unwin is a Christohurch JWoman, thin, spare, and fairly tail, ,who dresses m black and wlio has a father as rich as blazes, and *a husband (who says he has damned little. 'He is a coach proprietor and; gives her 15s a week. There is an order against him for that amount, and also a&ainst Uames OopelancL farmer; of Chertsey, her father. is • a man ' worth splosh.; Barrister Harvey said -lie must be worth nearly £'30,000. Well, that's all right, but he averred-, tliat lie was worth somewhere about .£lO,---000 less. That isn't much, anyhow. ffen thousand is "neither here itor .there to a man who has got twenty and a big farm. Yet he tells the Old. itale that he came to this Dominaon with nothing, and had made all he, had behind the plough and other agricultural sundries. But the woman swore; • m Court that 'thirty bob a week (wasn't sufficient for her to keep her family on—and they, were only twoYet it was a pathetic tale ; . she .^hM been ill-^-aii outpatient of.-the.-fiospi-tal, and tbe babies were six and . lour (years old respectively. Well, slie pays seven bob a week ;f or a cottage m [North-street, Ch-ristchurch, and has not much means of living bar living on medicine, and that doesn't make life worth living, anyway. Of course the husband'was the man who should J really ' ' INCREASE HIS EMOLUMENT, : i)ut as l^e has just started m business ,«the S.-MN thought he would give him A chance. The missus told Mr* Bisii- . op, S.M., thafc / she looked after her kiddies the ■best she could, and that she resented an application on ■ the part of her father to take ibheni' to his own house. When the young lad# mar-" sifed the coach-driver, who has. got' 1 cabs and other things that areri'4 1 autos, she got a house and six > acres.' . at Heathcote for nix, .but she left ,it»; , and wandered all round. Christchurclr > •m lodgings, afterwards, '< _ ■■;, • , . ! In reply to Mr Donnelly, the com? ■« iplainant denied that she couldn't, takecharge of the children properly ;^ie •feriew that her father wanted to have;* (them and take care of them. However; she wouldn't let him have them.; sfcey /would rear her own. She wanted more., ifehan thirty bob a week, anyhow. : ■ Mr Bishop, m saying it was avparttr ful< case, rem,arke!d that "ttoeres'Wetjfti Exceptional : cirbs about it, an^ that so,« as the hustiand would recover has? financial position he •would revie:wij /the: position; 'His Worship increased^ (the. order to a quid a week^ . ','■':