DIVORCE CASES.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 16 August 1920, Page 3

DIVORCE CASES.

t -——* e At the Palmcrstqn North Supreme Court on Saturday morning Kate i Louisa Enoka te Wano (Mr Hurley) applied: for a dissolution of her mari ■ riago with Pcnetiti Enoka te Wano on the grounds of desertion. The parties : were married in Otaki in 1899 and j there were two children of the mar- ' riagc. On account of respondent'3 i cruelty petitioner stated that she left ' him 15 years ago and had had no mainj tenancc money from him for five years. / Witness was in service in Wanganui i and was supporting her children. j A decree nisi was granted, with costs J on the lower scale against respondent. j Annie Celia Higgott, licensee of the I Jublice Hotel, Otaki, sought a divorce frpm her husband, Frank Higgott, on , the grounds of adultery. The parties i were married in 1909 at Wellington, and subsequently lived for three years j at Lower Hutt. There was one child Jof the marriage born in 191-}. Petii ! ! tioner stilted that after the birth of j I the child respondent went to Otaki, j ! where he had been living with a half- i (caste woman up till a few months ago. After hearing of other evidence His I Honor granted a decree nisi to be made absolute after three months. Costs on j' the lower scale were given against rcI spondent and the interim custody of I the child was given to petitioner. Mr Cooper appeared for petitioner.