A NICE HUSBAND.

Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 132, 1 March 1886, Page 3

A NICE HU SBAND.

A terrible .story of domestic infelicity was told at the Collingwood Court, Victoria (says (he Observer) on Tuesday. A respectable, pleasantdooking woman, with five well-dressed, cleanly children —oner of them, however, paralysed—■ ujeir Worships for some advice. " S rihc was married to a wool-sorter in the service of Goldsbrough and Co., wdio made <£3 a week and obtained an annual bonus. He wars a racing gambler, drank occasionally, and “ hammered ’ his wife when she expostulated, telling her that he had a better v. Oman to take her place. There was an understanding that ho should give her £2 a week to pay the rent and all other expenses ; but he seldom adhered to this, giving her 9s on a race week and occasionally nothing at all. He lived in the house, but came home all hours, locking himself up in two rooms, winch he kept for himself exclusively. She tried to earn a little by going out washing, but she was now suffering from nervous debility, and unable to contribute If) the maintenance of the family, In her dire extremity f therefore, she applied for advice. The magistrates were at first puzzled how to act, and suggested she should summons the uuuairival man for the maintenance of the children. She said that she had A not even money to take out a summons, and the chairman (Mr Henry Walker) Said he would pay the expense himself.