GOOD AT DARNING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 487, 17 October 1928, Page 17

GOOD AT DARNING

BUT HUSBAND WANTS DIVORCE “My wife was a remarkably good hand at darning stockings,” said George Henry Jackson; in the Sydney Divorce Court, amid laughter.. “Oh. my word, she was.” he added. The suit is contested, and is one in which an elderly man. George Henry Jackson, who has been married four times, is seeking a divorce from Jinny Jackson (formerly Irwin). The hearing was to-day continued before the Judge in Divorce (Mr. Justice Owen). Gerald Ballantyne. farmer aud grazier, of Mina. New Zealand, has been joined as the co-respondent, and he denies the misconduct alieged against him. and Mrs. Jackson, a young woman, also denies the charges. Husband's Verses Jackson admitted to Mr. Hardwick that he had written verses to his wife. “Verses to Jean” read;— We shall be the last to discover A blot on the fame of a friend Aflaw in the faith of another. Whose soul will prove true in the end A smile or a sigh may awaken Suspicions most false and undue. And thus our belief may be shaken In a soul that is honest and true. How often the friends we hold dearest Their noblest emotions conceal. Their souls are the purest and sincerest. But they have secrets they cannot reveal How often the light smile of gladness Is worn by the friends that we meet. To cover a soul full of sadness. Too proud to acknowledge defeat. Mr. Hardwick (to Jackson): Have you ever pulled your wife’s hair?—No; -ertainly not. Jackson, in answer to Mr Curtis, said that his wife had admitted to him that a man was in love with her. Clifford George Jackson, a son of Jackson, the petitioner, hy his first wife, said he lived in New Zealand. On November 2, 1926 he and a man named Sydney Jones visited Cheviot, a town in New Zealand, where Ballantyne, the co-respondent, lived. He had seen Mrs. Jackson and Ballantyne together. She called Ballantyne. “Gee. dear,’ and lie called her “Dear.” He had seen them kiss goodbye. The further hearing was adjourned till the following day.