HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Inangahua Times, Volume 701, Issue 701, 16 August 1878, Page 2

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Tho clnuso in tho Matrimonial C'mis.^ Bill, now only awaiting lUy*\ bssomUo booomo law under which polieo mi-H---tratoi will bo empowered, in oasrs of husbands convicted of nßsr.-irnted assault* on their wives, to ordor, if tlu<y am satisfied that tho future aiifoly of n wife is in peri), that flho shall no longer bo bcund to livo with her husband, is likely to effect a considomblo chnngo itv tho matrimonial rointions of many o-mi|»!.«s amon* tho industriom classes (s.ij« fhn Pall Mall Gnaotte). When n husoan.l realises that if he bolabors his hdp-nito over tho head with a poker, orsm-h-vs her ribs by kicks with hob-iuiled Iv-of* he not only run tho risk of imprisonment with hard labor, but also I hat ol losintho sorvico of a hardtrork.aj? shnv bo will pobably think twice before ho strikes or kicks once. He will also bo mow .:»* dined to rcfWion before violence by th > knowlodgo tb«t tho magistrate,'* ordor will have tho force in all resects of jiulioial separation on tho Rround ot cruelty, and that he will bo compelled to support his released partner by n weekly allowauco ; and that, bis wife, so lorn: :n alio bohtivos correctly, will liavoch ir.4o of his children under ton years of a;;-!, if tho matfistrato is of opiuion thai, this courso is desirable. Ho can, if it pleases him, appeal to tho Divoreo C«mvt n^-iinst, tho ma«Utrato's order 1 but it U not likely that his homo comforts, such w* tho liberty to smash and man^lo his wifo, will bo restored to him unless ho onn prove himself to be an injured inmnvni,. Tho effeot of this law will no doubt bo most wholosomo in many o»sos; at thh timo its provisions will havoto Iv .mi 1 m ,vj \vi;h much caution and ju.l^ni^ni, \'m-, although n)thmg can woll om-.'^l ii ; > | brutality of »omo husbands. Uht-um not wanMng instances of m<m cm. 1 ! 1,1 desperation by tho hnbils of dcunlci'u wivos, nnd who aro more fit, imiwiih. •lauding a sudden outburst: to vioViuv. to \ tnko char^o of their children in tn ihoir iutooiporat^u)artuors.

hwaited tho arrival of tho Grosser Kitr* furat's crew at Wilbolnnhnvon. Whou dlim\mntz his roan Count Mon.q, tho captain of tho lost. vosHolt thanked thorn for tho perfect componure they had preserved in that trying hour. Two hundred and eighty-four li«os were losfc by tho colli* pion. An showing tho «tf angoly erroneous ttolioyy which people at homo entertain runnj£^kv> pnoplo in tho oolon'ofl, IllnelchntrnW n chatty letter to tho Melbourne Ajfo descriptive of tho doingfi of tlm Colonial eriokotors at Homo, gives an iimminp; inataneo of the ignoranco of the Notts folk. On thoir way In their qnnrtors ono native was hoard to remark to his companion, ' Whoy Bill, they bennt blnok at nil j they're as white n« wuis. Tho Wnnganui Ohroniclo s'ato'i thnt a kidnoy weighing fifty pounds lidh been on viow in that northern borough. It wno taken out of an ox of huge dimon»ious. bred at Wostmorc t , A singular enso of resurrection is re ported by our Wellington correspondent. In tho ciioo of JBuekridpo v, Wardoll, tried at tho last civil sitiiiiKß of the Supretuo Court there, it wan positively flWorn thnt ono Snundors, tho vendor of tho properly to tho plaintiff had died in tho GhrUtehureh Hoflpital. On Friday, fiaundord telegraphed that ho was crcnUy apprised to loom of his own doath, and that ho ifl pomp; to Wellington to pjiro tlovionco in tho cnao.— Dunodin Star. The HiHhop of Mclboiirno is very ftnxious that hia views about tho future sfcnto of tha heftthen should bo correctly known ; at a meeting the other day of tho Church of .Knajlnnd Aborigines Mia" «ion, ho said thero woro myriads and myriads of heathens who felt their need of Christ. They felt thnt they wore not abh to worship God as they ou«ht, and they wcro in just that condition of uwnkoninp which afforded tho mojifc favorNnble <l«ld for mis«i<»nary enterprise. Tho church that had not a missionary foolincc \initwasno truo church. He had boon 'anxious to put this maltor on its truo bnsifi, bconufle ho had boon shocked in his enrly days io hour it said that thohoathon would perish becauso they did not bo-« lioro wlint they had never henrd of, It wa« a blasphemy to say thnt God would niako men roiponsiblo for gift/i which ho had ncVor bestowed on them, but those who had rccHvod these gifts ou^ht; to bo toady to falco them to those who had not rocoived, but who woro foelin« their neod of thorn* Chnrlea Dielcens' ' Vacant Chair.' Bays 4 Li^ht,' wns sold Inst wook for thirty-ono guineas. Ifcs ovlejinal pneo was 1(K Tho »alo was that of ; the o/ToctH of the Into Edward Wilson, tho woll-known Australian nowspnpor proprietor. Ho purohnsod tho' Vaonnfc Oht.-r' 1 with flovoral fltnall odds and end«, at the Dickons' snla Gadshill, for £200, .Last week tho en« tiro lot realised only J839. r lhin doos not imply that Dickons' literary popularity has docronsod, but wo fear it (Wi menu thn* tho Forster biography bus dono its work, and that; tho porflonnl presti«o of tho great novelist h\h greatly decreased . Tho remo ly, as wo hnvo fl'tid in a provious numbor, is in a real biography of Dickons, but who will write it P By tho way the copyright of tho ' Skotohca by IW has just Inpsod, ond thnt of ' Oliver Twl«t' has only a abort period to run. I'opulnr editions of thosfl works aro already being prepared by several publishers, A contemporary rotates tho following tall yarn :— " A Now Zealnndor recently wont to his physioian to bo con«ultod about a seroro pain In tho head. Tho doofcor rotfommemtfd tho in&tanfc removal of the bruin as the only possible cure for tho disease. The brains woro there* I'nro remWd to bo thorou«hly clennod und sot hi working onlor, but wlun Ihoy wero returned to their rightful owner, nftor th^o \ a^ 0 o f a fow days, tho pniiont would no t think of having thorn replaced, telling > ( j, 0 doctor thnt sinco his last visit ho (»ho>^; on ;) i n d juflt rccoivod a por« . ltnan^{ > l i Appointment to a Govornmont