A DIVORCE CASE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3661, 9 April 1883, Page 3

A DIVORCE CASE.

AVellington, This clay.

At the next sitting of the Supreme Comi, ii the divorce and matrimor-'al causes jurisdiction, the suit of Maidment v. Maidment aud another is appointed for hearing. The petitioner, Chas. Maidment, of AVellington, contractor, sues for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of the respondent's alleged adulfeiy with the co-respondent, Samuel Rowc, of the Ilutt, settler. The parties were mairied at Wa-'-au, in the Marlborough district on the 10th of Jul}', 1859, the wife's name be-'-ig Hannah Pickering. S ; -iec tho nuu.iagc petitioner and his "wife lived together at Wa' v au, and subsequently at the Hio-t, and there have been issue of tho in-'on ten children, the eldest of whom is mar.led to a resident of Palmerston North. The peti.ioner alleges that on or about the loth of June, 1881, and on other occasions since that date, aud on the 28th of March last, the respondent oomir'ttod aluVtry with tie co-respondent at the Ilutt, wherefore the petitioner prays for a, decree g ani.'-ig the annr'-nent of his marriage, and further seeks that the corespondent may be ordered to pay tbe sum of £1000 by way of damages, together with the whole of the costs incidental to the proceedings.