BACHELOR HUSBAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3330, 23 September 1911, Page 9

BACHELOR HUSBAND.

MUSIC TEACHER WHO FOUND MARRIED LIFE NOT TO HIS TAISTE.

The positive declaration of a husband, stated to b a teacher of music, that he intended to lead a bachelor’s life in the future, was read in the Divorce Division, in London before the President, Sir Samuel Evans, when Mrs Emily Kirby Wadha.m, living at Maida Vale; asked for a decree of restitution, of conjugal rights against her husband, Walter Wadham.

The parties were married, it was stated at Leeds, in 1897, and they lived together at St. John’s Wed, there 1 eing no issue. Mrs Wadham said they lived happily until 1910, when her husband became dissatisfied, and said he would not live with her any longer. He went away in March of the present year. She wrote to him asking him to return to her, and he replied on April 12th, 1911.: — “ I can only reiterate what I said before. I am net going to come back to you .... Married iife is not to mv taste. I desire, a.ncl intend, to-' be a bachelor once again. . . . It is not a bit of gcod to keep on harping on the same old string. ... I havo quite made up my mind. . . • This is final as far as I ana concerned, and I have not anything more to add.” Later, he wrote a similar letter, concluding “Geo d-bye. Walter,” in wnach he said he had not taken this cL o witnnut much thought, and his decision was final. , , His Lordship granted the vtecree asked for.