POVERTY BAY.
At the Gisborne S.M. Court on the 7th Matthew Donald, a farmer, aged 62, charged his wife with intending to leave him without adequate means of support. After hearing evidence an order was made for 10s per week for maintenance, defendant to "nter into a bond in £300 and find two sureties of £200 each, in default two months' imprisonment. The evidence showed that defendant had spoken of going to America, and asked her husband to go, but he refused. He had left home, he said, because he had been knocked down and illtreated by his brother-in-law. H-e had married eight years ago. and his property had been conveyed to his wife by deed of assignment.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 34
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118POVERTY BAY. Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 34
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