BILLENS BARMY?

NZ Truth, Issue 159, 4 July 1908, Page 6

BILLENS BARMY?

ilist's Matrimonial Worries. y> ~ - • ' , ■■-. ;_jittent -.preacher ,off the -{Word* .ph Daltry Billens has been "yand down before the Chadst- ,'.." ._. - - , arsAc for some time back m, a IP^l^igttfitaNe-tric manner; . Arrested on a ? rtcharge "of wife desertion, he drew fripm fMagistrate; Bishop ait c expression .j of tidoubt' as to his sanity -by his irres_t>nk'sible behaviour m the court room, and Ran order was made compelling him to t«upport hie young children. Billens . at "i-she time made violent allegations refflectiiing on the virtue of his spouse, and J upon "Truth" with a mass of V evidence m support bf his charges, but 'ithis fair-minded journal told him A to get t_nim gone ; we would have none of him. was made to him in' "Truth" Vas a , ' 'distraught -wowser ," and -Billens (.waited on the door-step subsequently and much valuable time m wordy {disproof of his qualifications as a "wowtser." Later, one Sunday night, (Billens iopened fire on the populace m the open _ -ftir,._ lt He dangled hell before the -eyes of >jtude, and consigned to nerdition who /strayed from the /that leads to wings and. a \ The crowd took to him. "Sji evangelist sprinted be- \ like the editor of a Vily paper flying before { poor and the sweated tlgipent. That, incident icorded m this shockVre never has ' been an V. person named " Jos--"dy hot Billens's / - ' v <iim to sue his un- / . "\Mary, the other / ' \ moneys lent. ithe relationship a and Solicitor replied, "Hus\not living rting her i \ s ' \s be--1 . \box ' : v. : M ! < s • ';■

_____ •• A ■ • ' ! Billens remarked, irrelevantly, that; he 'had paid f Or the first child, which the J'wife had admitted, m writing, was not ;;the offspring of Billens. .' . nn '-.-, + hn ■ ,His Worshipxquoted section 20 of the ' Harriett WomeA(s Property Act, which -provides that the husband was not entitled to claim., '•■; j ; Mr Donnelly explained that the £5 was ('banked by Billens (and was taken out ; by the wife when she was m a state of : destitution. His Worship remarked that Billens ■ would be nonsuited, as the court had no ; jurisdiction, and the plaintiff mio-ht take i: proceedings of another character. :' Billens then proceeded against his 5 jfjfather-ih-law, Edwin Smith, to recover *i£2 lis, representing certain debts that | Smith had agreed to pay, and didn't. tßillens, however, v couldn't produce any £ agreeirient-' involving the" indebtedness of ,|his Wife's pa, ahd he was bumped out of - [.court wearing a crestfallen and dazed ex- ? i pression.