A MIXED MARRIAGE
RELIGIOUS .DIFFERENCES LEAD TO; DIVORCE COURT. Sydney, October 26. In the Divorce Court yesterday, Wil- J !iam Alfred Joseph Cross sought restitution of ccnjugal'Tights froru Elizabeth Eleanor Cross. . Petitioner, who waß twice at the war, and won a D.C.M., gave evidence that he had; been a layreader, and eventually became ordained. Differences arose through his wife being a Catholic and he an Anglican._ He'had ffiven her no cause for refusing to live with him, but he admitted that under extreme provocation he had struck her. Respondent, in her evidence, said that nt ime time they lived in Dunedin, where her husband acted as lay-reader and was subsequently ordained. From New Zealand they came to Sydney. She said her husband frequently left her without money or food, and 011 many occasions cnnliy treated her. However, she was willing to again live, with her husband if he treated her as wife, and not as a slave and discontinued his ill-treatment. Judgment was reserved.—Press Aesn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 27, 27 October 1920, Page 7
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165A MIXED MARRIAGE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 27, 27 October 1920, Page 7
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