Earthquake Fund

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 7

Earthquake Fund

TWO additional contributions to.' ■ "N.Z. Truth's" Earthquake Relief Fim i d; ; '"-hay^^-'bte'eTi"':'re'e;eiyed77~ vi ? .:_Q.Y.M^^^: .We, -^ix^6/^ These amounts increase the total raised by this paper, for 'alleviating" distress due to the earthquake, to £275/13/6. >•• • .; • ■■■ •t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii i n 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 ii m 1 1 1 1 1 1 ( 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 utiill ii v 1 1 1 nl nc titude towards her' then ; became' very spiteful. \ ■- . ■■■'"' "There was a letter which Mrs. Beynon; allegedly found' m Handyside's room, and -written by this particular young lady! . She took it to the girl's parents, but ■ when' I asked her why she .'had/done so she refused to give me £.ny explanation at .all. "Qwirig to' frequent quarrels and to the '.large, accounts I had to pay for clothing foir- my wif.e, • I instructed, my solicitors I ' m' 1927; to, write a" letter to her, i asking ''for a separation.,. . "Th is i difference was settled, however; but . some Jime later I left her for . two months, and then I eventually suggested to her that we should make another:, home: again. . . ; . "^he- was. living with her family ,at the time, so ; I went to stay with j them,,but after.fpur. days I left, on account ";ofv. the treatment- I was getting/ from. 'her people. "After?that we never lived under the same roof together, but about February. of this year ■ a suggestion was made that' twe should; live together again. ' • "On April 13, 1929,> we were very close to making ; a new home, ribut ibefore coming 'to any 'final -arrangements I thought it. just as well to ask her a certain question. / "V asked her if she: had always been faithful to me/ .She said 'No,' and that she ' had been intimate with Handyside; at Wariganui, during the Christmas holidays. <• .:..'■■ ■•:■' "I said I was going to approach Handyside m .-.the matter, that I thought 'it was only the fair thing to do. She asked me to forgive, hei',. but I said I couldn't do so under the. cir-, cumstances. ' ..•■ ' c - -..-.. »"Two days i Before; Handyside's marriage oh April 16, I discussed the matter with him, and when he returned from his honeymoon on April 21, I had a further inter- . view with him on the following day. .IVly. wife was present, then. ' . "She ."^as' greatly broken up by the whole matter^ "and asked me to forgive her, but",l: : said that would be .impossible. ■ r>tfliid Handyside I was disgusted with?' him, and that I was applying for;* a .divorce. ' "Between-. 1 vthkt time and the time when the'^papers were served,- she came to see me on several occasions, with 'the pbject of asking my forgive-' ness, but I would not forgive her.

. "She said that as Handyside had made a written admission, she might as .well do the same; but when I arranged to get one m similar terms from her. she refused to sign it. "After April 22, I had a number of letters from my wife— four of them— containing admissions of my wife's wrongdoing, but I didn't reply to • any of them." ' ,■:. ' ' 'Mr. Leicester (for. petitioner): Are you prepared to forgive your wife? Beynon : v No! . ■ Mr. Jackson: Since 1927 you have wished, to be rid Of your wife? Beynon: Yesi ■ Why ?— On account of the. way she carried on m the house. /Extravagance, and she kept the house m a terrible state. Was that the only reason?— Yes. Did you tell her m July; 1927, you wanted a separation ?— I told her I wanted to draw up a separation.. But she couldn't see any reason for separation at all?— She could. ■ \ Counsel: Did. you tell' her you wanted a separation m 1927 because there was some other woman? • Beynon: No! " "-' ' ; And so you asked . her to agree to a divorce? — No." , And m October, -1927, you had . been going with some other woman who had been the cause of the trouble- m the home?— -No. Your wife was obliged to ask you for maintenance;- wasn't she?^-She was not! Maintenance was offered. £3 a we.ek she • got from an order made by the magistrate. " ;., Counsel: About two months after your- separation you came back*, didn't you? _ ,■■ :;. ■ ; ' ' ."■ Beynon: Yes. ; ... , You- made all arrangements to go to a house' m T3erhampore, didn't you, and then' a i few , days later you told her you .wouldn't go. on -with it?— l didn't' change lny mind.. Her brother, told her she was afiiug to go back. Her people A interfered; and ;■• said sh e .