GLAD TO HEAR IT.
A few weeks ago I told the tale in these columns of a deserted wife. The poor soul is slowly dying at the hospital of consumption, the result of overwork and anxiety. The husband allowed his very much better-half (in this case) to support him by her own exertions and idled while she toiled for both, and when she was at last knocked up and compelled to go to the Hospital, the man sold off her sewing machine and piano (purchased with her own money), and drawing her savings (£2O) out of the Bank, cleared out for Melbourne. I related how the poor wife, woman-like, refused to believe any ill of the man who had behaved in such a heartless way to her, and how she longed to see him again before she died. lam very pleased to hear that some friend of the dying woman who read my article forwarded a copy of the Obseiiyek to the runaway husband, together with sufficient means to enable him to return to Auckland. And he has come back.
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Observer, Volume 9, Issue 532, 2 March 1889, Page 3
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180GLAD TO HEAR IT. Observer, Volume 9, Issue 532, 2 March 1889, Page 3
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