FREED FROM THE FETTERS

NZ Truth, Issue 217, 21 August 1909, Page 11

FREED FROM THE FETTERS

DIVORCE PETITIONS. Mr Justice Edwards had a batch of disillusioned, disappointed, and damnably disgusted individuals before him m Auckland Supreme Court on Saturday. Like i little Jack Homer they had dipped their thumbs m the matrimonial pie, but had not had the luck to pull out a plum— not even a cheap little currant, so to speak. Wherefore, with soured hearts full of gall and wormwood, they descended '• on the Divorce Court, and asked, m 10ud,.-deter-mined accents, to have the hateful shackles struck oIT, and the fetters freed that legally menaced them to perfidious .partners. There was nothing remarkable about the cases. Just DRINK, INFIDELITY, OR » DESERTION. . . Elizabeth Emma Ivory would doubtless reverse the advice of- Sam Weller to fcewais of "the vidders." It's a pretty safe wager that; sire has warned all the widowers off her connubial course since the time she had with tteorge Ivory, j Thinking she had found her affinity; she gaily tripped up the aisle to the strains of the orthodox "Wedding March' I—or1 — or is it after the Voice has Breathed that the band gets lrusy ? J.t doesn't matter a pinch of curry and rice anyway. Whnt does count is" that this cooing couple were well and trujy spliced. This i was m 1801). G^eorge was ; i a^-^arWmver with a rcadyvmjtde family of ,jtoro t .and he apparently .soon tired of Ms^ebdn^' dive iritis tKc^' deep sea of matrimony and its concomittant comforts of the cosy corner character. . _In September, 1901, <£eorge broke for "Jloo Land," his avowed object being to "place his children m life." He promised faithfully to be Tmck at his am fireside by the time six moons had waxed arid waned, but, like tlw ship m the song, he "never returned." From 'Stralia. he ducked to the Cold Dart, and then had the chilled steel front to write to his deserted spouse for "gilt." Ot course the preposterous proposal's of tho perfidious deserter were received with the frosty eye of scorn and the cold, deaf ear of contempt. His Honor read the letters put m, and granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute m three months.