COUNTESS CZERNIN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 155, 20 March 1918, Page 2

COUNTESS CZERNIN

AN ENGLISH LADY WHO JMBKIED .AN AUSTRIAN.' The question of the legality of paying money under a marriagO settlement to an alien subject, altliough not an alien enemy, camo boforo Mr. Justice Evo in the Chancery Division re' cently upon two adjourned summonses in which the 'plaintiffs wore respectively Lord Islington and Mr. Beckett, and the defendant the Countess Czernin. The Countess before hor marriage with Count Ozernin—the brother of the Austrian Foreign Secretary— was Miss Lucy Catherine Beckett, daughter of tho late Lord Grimthorpe, Who married Count Czernin, who was an attache of tho Austrian Embassy in England iji 1903, when j,li" marriage settlements were entered into'. Mr. Archer, for the Countess, explained that in October, 1014, the Austrian Courts decreed a judicial separation between tho Count and Countess Ozernin: After the deaths of hor father in May last and her sister in June defendant became entitled to £30,000 and tho incorao of £23,421 under an carlior settlement. .. The trustees were anxious to pay the money if they could legally do co. Defendant was at present resident in Italy with her grandmother, and she was not an enemy although an enemy subject. His, Lordship decided that so long as.tho Countess lemained in England or in neutral or Allied countries sho was entitled to i cceivo the money.

'(.'ho Johnsonville branch of the ■Women's National Roservc held a very successful shop day on "Wednesday last. Tlio sum of £23 65.. 6d. was realised, of which it is proposed to donate £10 to tlio Y.M.O.'A. Trench Comforts Fund.

The marriage took place on January 8, at the parish church, Wceke, Winchester (England), of Miss Mary Eleanor Hobbs, elder daughter of tho Rev. J. Hobbs, of Napier, to Corporal Charles Kennedy Dick, N.Z.M.C. Tho bride, who is a sister in the N.Z.A.N.S., has been nursing since an early period of tho war, both at Egypt and Brookenhurst, and tho bridegroom and best man, Private Cooks, both left with tho Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Lieutenant M. Hobbs and Captain C. Hobbs (brothers of tho bride) were both present at tho ceremony, and a cousin, the Rev. D. R. Barton, C.F., who is a military chaplain, officiated. Tho New Zealand Military Hospital at Brockenhurst was represented by eight nurses, and members of tho staff. .Corporal Dick is stationed at Walton-on-Thames Hospital.