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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1921, Page 1

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£IO.OOO DIVORCE DA AI AGES

NEW YORK, January 7

‘•I am of opinion that the aggrieved wife, lias a right to punitive damages. It is a plain matter of justice. The law should recognise no double standard of requirement, one for the husband, the other for the wife, even in the remotest sense.”

Justice AVasservogel, of the Supreme Court of Now York, charged a jury in these words yesterday, with the result- that a verdict ol £IO,OOO damages was awarded to Jane Toplev, formerly wile of Alyron 11. Oppcnhcinior a New A’ork lawyer from whom she recently obtained a divorce, naming, Airs Martha Kridol, widow of a rich silk manufacturer, ns co-respondent. Jane Toplev. who alter the divorce resumed her maiden name, sued Airs Kridol for £50,000 for alienation of her husbands affections and for misconduct with him.

The judge dismissed the charge of alienation of a fleet ions hut upheld that of misconduct., -lane 'lopley testified that after the death of Mr Kridol in 1912 she noticed her husband paying attention to Airs Kridol. She remonstrated. and lie promised to behave, but when site returned from a trip to ( alifornia she found Airs Kridol hiding ua clothes cupboard in her husband’s flat. No defence was offered in either the divorce proceedings or the action for damages WHERE WHISKY GOES. MEDICINE FOR AMERICAN “INFLUENZA.” LONDON, Jan. 19 “AYo hoar well authenticated stories of 5,000 to 10,000 cases of Scotch whisky a week going to America,” says Harper’s Wine and Spirit Gazette. Sir James Stevenson, of the firm of John Walker and Sons, told a representative that the exports direct to tin United States are nm very large, hill that there is a heavy demand fron Mexico, Cuba, and other countries, an, no doubt some smuggling goes on. Be fore tlie United States went dry abou 100,000,000 gallons a year were con sumed there, of which only abou 2,000,000 gallons was from Scotland “it is a very good job the Unitei States has gone dry, or there would no he enough whisky to go round,” h said. . In support of the suggestion tha ; smuggling goes on, statistics stiow tlia in December last 136,094 gallons c : proof spirit were shipped from ti United Kingdom to Canada, agains 53,580 gallons in the previous Deoen , |,er and the total quantity sent to Hi , Dominion in 1020 was 1.701,734 gallon! , against 527,940 gallons in 1919. A member of the leading whisky fin