" BUT THAT WAS A JOKE."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 4

" BUT THAT WAS A JOKE."

UNUSUAL MAINTENANCE CASE. IBy ToloEraDh-Presß Association.) Auckland, February r 24'. r " Somewhat unusual circumstances were ( disclosed in a case brought by Margaret Harrison for a separation order, her husband, Charles Arthur Harrison, being charged with failing to provide mairitenajietf. A previous application- had been made in Wellington, and was abandoned, according to defend ant's solicitor, because offers liiul been made towanls a settlement. Defendant is proprietor of the Hoval Hotel, Wellington, and counsel added that this case might be abandoned later in view of divorce proceedings. l'laintilT said she had been living on what her husband had given her, nnd what sho had saved—about .£ISOO. There was probably about .CiOO remaining. She admitted that in Wellington she stayed at the best hotels; nlso that she wrote her husband a letter threatening to commit bigamy; but that was a joke. The magistrate said he could not make an order on the evidence produced. Complainant was not destitute, nor was he satisfied that sho was not being maintained. If she wished the matter thoroughly investigated she had better go to the Wellington Supreme Court. The enso was dismissed without prejudice.