The Euston Divorce Cases.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 103, 9 June 1884, Page 2

The Euston Divorce Cases.

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George Manley Smith, one of the parties m the celebrated Enstoti divorce case, is well known m this city, where he resided for some time Under the name of Johnstone. He was at one time employed aa an accountant m Messrs Wilson and [Richardson's, and, was also, we believe, for some lime m Mr Kennedy !MacdonaldU employment. AUout a year and nine months ago a dntect;ve from Scotland Yard landed ia -

Auckland, and, beginning with that city, started a search for Johnstone throughout the whole of New Zealand, where the parties interested had 'good information that he was still living. The detective's search wiis successful, nnd the man wax vreli paid to return to England and give Ijis evidencp. Ou discovering m Johnstone the first husband of Kate Cook, nnw Lady Euaton, Lord Euston made certain that he Imd secured evidence which would free him from his matrimonial yoke, but it turned out that when Johnstone, alias Smith, married Kate Cook, he had another wife living, so that marriage ■was void, and Kate Cook was quite free to marry Loid Euston when she did. The whole case is most extraordinary, and if embodied m form of a novel, the plot would be deemed wildly improbable. Although Lady Euston is now leading a notoriously profligate liie,ithe Divorce Court ia not open to Ikt husband on that ac* count as ho legally deserted her, and t<o deprived himself of any right to oxpeet her to live virtuously. Kate Cook, therefore, m pretty certain to become Duchess of Graftou, and after al! it may be doubted if she is much ■wo ire than the first who bore tho title, and from whom her husband is descended.