EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE.
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Dunedin, This Day. In a divorce case brought before Mr JuHtice Williams to-day the petitioner, Susan Young McFarlane, asked for dissolution of her marriage with Andrew McFarlane of Caversham, storemao, on the ground of five years' desertion. The respondent did not appear. The peculiarity of the case was that the wife left her husband. He went home late one night and quarrelled with his wife who was then nursing a young baby. She asked him not to strike her, saying that if he would stay his hand she would, go out and he would never have to sweep the floor after her again, and she left there and then. At two o'clock in the morning she came away bareheaded and barefooted, taking her baby wrapped in a shawl and seeking shelter in a neighbours house. Since that night M'Farlane had never maintained his wife. Tho petitioner's evidence was corrobor. ated in certain particulars by the witnesses called, after which His Honor granted a decree nisi to bo made absolute after three months.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 December 1901, Page 3
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178EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 December 1901, Page 3
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