DIVORCE COURT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 December 1891, Page 3

DIVORCE COURT.

Thursday 26 November. 1 !'• ■ (Before His Honour the chief Justice.) TAYLOR V TAYLOR. ' This was an action in which Jane Ellen Alice Wilmer Taylor, formerly M'Kenzie, sought a dissolution of her marriage with John 'J aylor on fche grounds of adultery and desertion . Mr Thompson appeared for the petitioner, and the respondent was unrepresented. The petitioner deposed that she . was married to the respondent at > v t John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington', on the 9th of January, 3878. ghoJMtl not seen or heard from her IpV-,MM since 1887, when she . obtained a magisterial ordei for the of her children, bhe had not received any payment under the order, and had ever since been supported by her father. Had not lived with her husband since the failure of his father, Waring Taylor, in 1884. Respondent had never to provide her with a home. # George Albert Tattle, law clerk,

proved that he met Taylor in July last at Sydney, where he was working as a billiardmarker in au hotel. He told witness that he had left his wife and three children in Wellington, and was now living with a married woman, who had been better than a wife to him for more than two years. Witness subsequently saw him entar houses of illfame in the company of notorious women. His Honor granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute at the first sitting after three months.— Post.