SELLING A WIFE IN WELLINGON

Inangahua Times, Volume 69, Issue 69, 14 August 1878, Page 2

SELLING A WIFE IN WELLINGON

j That a wife should bo bought and sold i in the City of Wellington in tho proscn!. day, when education" and refinement ii supposed to bo so widely diffused, scorn* «lm»st incredible. Suoh an occurrence howovor, did actually tako plado thi", morning. By rofcronco to out polioe roI port it will bo seen that a' man named Igoe was charged with assaulting a wofn(*'v with whom he formerly oohabited, h\\ who sworo tint sho had sinco mirried a man named Roborts. We nro informal j ou oradiblo authority that tho woman han ainco declared n predilection for tho old i love, upon which Roberts, fooKnr not «N together content with tho bargain ho had made, declared thnt ho wns gui o willin ; to rosign the prizo upou being paid tlw oxponses ho had incurred in connection with tho marringo, &c, which ho esti* mated nt £2 10*. Tho offjr wai nt on ;<i accepted by Igoo, tho money wm paid, a-'d tho following document was drawn up and signed :— • Wellington, Ist August, 1878. ' I hereby rolenio and sell out to Jack Igoe, her original lorer nnd colonial hu»band, all claim to wife Sarah Ann Roberts , (pianist) at .Tone's Wellington Saloon, for tlio sum of £2 10s. * , (Signed) Tno*. Jonx Rom?KT*. i l Winossos — .Tnmos Mornssoy, C. Winn/