DOINGS IN DIVORCE

NZ Truth, Issue 578, 15 July 1916, Page 2

DOINGS IN DIVORCE

The Larsjns Loosened

It was on June 10, 1913, that John Henry Larson,' who is now a driver of the Army Service Corps, at Trentham, trotted Hester Rachel TJren off to the Registrar's and asked for a license. John put down the "dough" and the Registrar moulded them into one. John and Hester commenced the profession of competent honeymooners, and inhabited Wellington for some time, everything going as merry as a Yiddish bankruptcy. There was no statistical dividend paid out on this transaction, and the two Temained as one until Saturday last.

Eventually a little bird or an earthquake or something whispered to John and he happened to come home (as petitioners will, sometimes) just when not wanted on tie premises. Hester and ho inhabited the lower shelf of the dugout at Graf ton -road, and when John came home m the dark he heard something — something which

AROUSED HIS SUSPICIONS, and he immediately bolted to the top shelf, which was Inhabited by Bob McGuire and his family. Robert, who is a waterslder, detected tho excited look of his fellow-inhabitant and suspected murder, measles, or something equally exciting, and, on John asking him to come down to the basement shelf of the rentery, ho skipped down quick and lively.

When the duo arrived there it was plain to see they were not expected due at all for they found a gentleman named Ernest Dockerell dressed rs he should not have been, and m a roomwhere only a "hubby" was privileged. Both Heater and Ernest seemed surprised but not very pleased at the suddenness of tho Interruption. Bob was

COMPLETELY FLUSTERED when ho saw tho whole show without first purchasing a ticket, and ho had no Idea of what the trouble was when he first went down to the bottom Jump of tho dug-out.

This llttlo seance occurred on December 26. 1915. This Boxing Day stunt took all tbo wind out of the sails of John's matrimonial barque and he decided to rig a Jury mast and sail into the Divorce Court.

Ho appointed .Mr. P. J. O'Regnn captain of the argosy, and the Harbor Master, Mr, Justice Honking, after isxaminlng tho ship's papers and hearing tho declarations of the crow und miister, decided to give John his clearance In tho shape of. a decree nlal, to bo mado absolute m three months.