Divorce Court.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 6, 5 December 1884, Page 2

Divorce Court.

Titesdax, (Beforo his Honor Mr Justice Rich,; niond>X-; .' ' '■■■'' MOURIS V. MORRIS. v . This was a petition for dissohrtidn- of marriage on the part of the husbaud, on the ground of his wife's adultery. Mr Gully appeared for the petitioner : there was no appearance for the respondent or co-respondent. - -;>■-■■ — ?• .— -: ' Henry Morris, the petitioner, deposed he was a fanner belonging to Palmers-' ton North, and married the respondent (Eliza Rose, a servant girlj m that , district on 17th December, 1880, the marriage ceremony being performed at her residence by a Wosleyan minister. ! He, co -habited *witli her up to .Jthe end'^of j that year, and respondents retrained m the house" until the Sth'of January! following, on which day she: disappeared. Her mother said she had gone to iPalmerston. On enquiry he learned! she had' taken train to Foxton. Siibsequently he heard she had' proceeded to Wanganui. He did. not follow her be*. cause t he not certain which way she had gone. Early m February be: obtained information that she had; got down to. Wellington.' He went' after her immediately.. Reaching' Welling-: ton he found her living with,her,;mother, and father m Little Taranaki-street, they having left the Palnierston jdis-, trict m the meantime. He 'obtained ah ' interview with his vvife, arid he went home again 'without her. He hadj net seen her since. In " Octdbel*, 1882, on receipt of a letter from her, he senti her a Post Office order for £3 to enable her to return home, but although- she drew the money she did nof turn up at home. Afterward, lie" heard '^sHe • had been delivered 1 of a, ch'ild; Thatwak m "December, 1883 C' -He again' canie down to Wellington m order t6 ascertain the facts of the case.- She and her people had left Little Taranaki-street, anjd he was unable/to find them. He camedown once more, m August of this Vearj " when he idipcovered she was living m a small cottage m Upper Willis-street. At Jhe .office ofthe Regiß.tr(ir : pf^B rths •he that' the respondenys child had been registered as; ani illegitimate!, one; By his Honor— -I'^bad -no- quarrel with my wife before . she left moj nor any warning of- herintention to goj W"e were ; pleasant enough all the timb- vi l asked, 4ier why she had run -awayj but she would not give me any answer dt all. She v said. ; she.. would never retuhi;to., suclf i." cursed hole" as Palmerstoii. Henry Hopkins, labourer, of Paliiierston North, said he. knew, the resppnpent. He came do<^n to Wellington in* JBB3, and lived h'ei'e for nine months. jDuring that tinie he frequently saw respon- " •dent m the streets. She was generally accompanied ; by a nian named Hose and. a< child. Witness , was -at that time, working with Hose at Robertson's foundry. /Respondent . and co-respondent then lived m Tarariaki-gtreetj' but n6W they lived m Upper Willis-street, i Respondent had tdld witness that the child belonged to Hose; ' ■ ■•■■•.. .' V * George Peck, assistant bailiff at the Resident Magistrate's Court, deposed to having served the citation on respondent and, co-respondent at a two.-rootjied cottage m Upper Willis-street. ' l"he latter said the affair might ' "slide," as he " was not coming to no Court. " .This' closed the case 'for the 'petitioner. ' ; , Mr Gqlly intimated that be had no desire to press for costs, against the cjo-res-pon'derit. ' His Hbnor remarked there was no doubt that the husband had pursued a somewhat slack course in.thia easel His affection musthave been.ota somewhat timid kind, tho.ugh.his, conducjt, ,pn lW whole was not, he thought, sufficient to disentitle him to a electee. -. '. Bis'Hbnoi I ' granted" a decree nisi but without costs. i ; The Court then rose. i