The Divorce Court.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 125, 22 April 1884, Page 2

The Divorce Court.

;' ■;' (UNITED- PRESS ASSOG^ATION.) ..■[. \ , \ ' . A*'CKnkx3)i Aijiril 19. ,,. | The civil seasides >j 6f the Supretne Cohn wfehie ijroiight'to'a close to-^-xfe-y' ..v^ith the hearing of the divorce *vetiori ojf Sw^nsori V. Swawson' and Winipi ;Te Wl>i*6hnttft.- Mr E. Hesketh appeared fpr the petitioner, who. is the eldest sou of t|je popular JM/.H.R. for Newton. The f circuriisUinct\s oi' the case were rather- peculiar. m January, JL6B2, t^ie petitioner was njarried to tH'fri'es^ pon4en.b, who, jndging: Wy her pottr^it, is a|secldedly good looking Maori,girl. yive, days afterwards unpleasantness rlose -"to mar the honey mooh^varKL- the \ bridegroom, -in pursuance of h's duties • .as clerk ot the Native Land'CJourt, left* j home for Hokianga, and . took his , wife [ [ wtthUbimi On the way sfrei r^ecahie: [ fascinated by a native assesor named Piripi, anfKfrom.ihat tinie .[manifested an ungovernable determination to forsake her husband .^fpr., this , Ipyer. A,ltlhough watched 'and retrained by her. liusband's mother, and stepfather, shej repeatedly; lett her ho.me, invariably- 1 b(dng brought back by Jber relatiotis. JM,jas^.on the 2nd..of Maly of last year,; she- eaqapjed /rofn lipn^e and never re-i turnwdi f a^, i ,sipce ijneii. , tias cohabifeoi; \\%h Pjripi,: ; ; T^e e\'idence to^adiilUiy: bejng , conqlusiye, an<j the connivance pct \yeen the ■ petitioner^ and ieisporiJe^^ l^n^. sjoggested,! a decree f nisi was pronounced for the dissolution'^ of the njamsge. r,^^,- haf .^ j -:" 11 ;