WISE AND OTHERWISE.

NZ Truth, Issue 571, 27 May 1916, Page 5

WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Bertha's Bonds Broken. Tho flr«t of the batch to tell a tale of woo was Bortba. WUo, and she wished

to have nothing to do with "hubby*' Frank William Wise, who she reckoned had been carrying on with another "pusson." Bertha said she threw m her lot with Prank m Wellington m 1909, the month being March. Six weeks v later, owing to ill-health, she went to Sydney with her brother, but Instead of paying all her axes., as promised, Frank only weighed m with £9; On returning to Wellington, she found he had gone "bung" m business. They then went to Ohakune, where Bertha ran a refresh- i ment room and Frank a tobacconist's^ I but while she was ill he sold up her business, and later EMPTIED HER OUT OF THE HOME. She "tumbled" she wasn't wanted and since then had knocked out her own living. In 1911 she was living m Nel-son-Btroet and he was living with another woman. The reason, ahe had not j sought divorce earlier was "N.S.F." Frank had been married before, but there were ho 'children of his marriage with Bertha, 1 Elizabeth Martin, a married woman, reckoned Frank had lived next door to her m Queen-street with another, woman, who was not Bertha. Charles Parker, who had been boardIng with respondent, gave similar evidence. , His Honor scribbled m the book and no.Uled to Bertha, at the same time remarking "decree nisi granted, to be mude übaoluto In three months."