'NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 5

'NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By ToleEraph.-Press Association.) —— — 4 ' JOLD IN THE DIVORCE CCTURT. A STRANGE EXPERIENCE. Auckland, November 30. Elizabeth Peace, boardinghouse-kecper, gave evidence in the Divorce Court this •morning. She stated that at the age of sixteen, in the year 1836, she married William Peace, who deserted her twelve months later. In 1890 she was informed that Peace had been killed in an accident in Dunedin. She read the account ■of such an accident in the newspaper. Three years later she went through a form of'marriage with Peter M'Cabe, and lived three years with him. Then ie left her and went with another woman, whom he had since married. After twenty years' absence, William Peace turned up in 1907. In 1908 Mrs. Peace obtained a divorce on the ground of desertion. A petition for nullity of the marriage with M'Cabe was granted. DIVORCE CASES. Auckland, November 30. In the Supreme Court decrees nisi were granted Mary Ann Ellis v. John Thomas Ellis, desertion; Mary Gibb v. Robert Gibb, misconduct; Brendcr Gorden Kean v. John Kean, desertion; William Morris Barton v. Mary Ann Barton, desertion and misconduct. In the case Julia Wilson Smith v. Harold Wilson Smith, an application • for a decree on tho ground of drunkenness and cruelty, the judge declined to make a decree until tho regulations ; under the new law, introduced in April, were.complied with. WHIRLWIND, AT MASTERTON. Masterton, November 30. An unusual" phenomenon occurred in the northern portion of the town yesterday afternoon, when a whirlwind from tho north swept along the bank of the Waipoua River, encountering a number of men and horses working on the main road. Articles of clothing, horses' nosebags, small stones, branches, and trees were whirled high in the air, whilst the water was churned np to a height of ;several feet. The ground this morning as strewn with debris. COUNCILLORS AND COUNCIL CON- ; ~_' TRACTS. _ •''..'• Dunedin, November 30. Seeing that a Municipal Corporations Bill has been passed," excluding directors of, companies having contracts with a public body-'such sitting on that council, .the cases against Councillors Shacklock and Stewart, which were fixed for to-morrow, .will not be gone on with;:/. It-is understood that the' new measure ! affects"several members of tho City Council. "