28 Chetwynd Street

Marry in haste and repent at leisure is a good old aphorism, but one which young blood seldom takes into consideration. At the City Police Court on Tuesday morning (as we learn from the Herald) a young man named Mortem Edward Mattingley, an articled solicitor’s clerk, was sued by his wife Mary Mattingley, for maintenance. From the evidence of Mrs. Mattingley and her youthful spouse, it appeared that Mary was in the service of Mrs. Mattingley, senior, as a domestic servant up to October. The entire case disclosed anything but a nice state of connubial felicity. The boy Mattingley, for he is nothing more, became too intimate with the girl, and the result was that she left her employment and went to live with a female friend, at whose house the young couple were married by a gentleman who unites the paying businesses of auctioneer and pastor of a Free Church in Collingwood. It appeared that the reverend gentleman came to unite the youthful pair at nine o’clock at night, the ceremony being postponed to this rather late hour in consequence of the minister declining to rivet chains of wedlock on account of the lad being rather in a hilarious state, owing probably to his joy at his approaching bliss. Young Mattingley cohabited for a fortnight with his wife when his mother, discovering her son’s mésalliances, induced him to return to the

A substantially-built five-roomed brick dwelling known as ROSEVALE COTTAGE.