MATRIMONIAL TROUBLES. AN ELOPEMENT AND A DIVORCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 7 April 1888, Page 4

MATRIMONIAL TROUBLES. AN ELOPEMENT AND A DIVORCE.

Auckland, April 5. At the Supremo Court, after we went to pi ess yesterday, the following divorce case was heard : - Edward Campion ( petitioner), Jessie Brown Campion (respondent), and Hans Peter Hanhcn(co-ie.spondenl), petition for dissolution of mania^e. MrTheo. Cooper appeared tor the petitioner. There was n° appearance for the icspondeiit or eoicspondcnt. Udward Campton deposed that he was a M,mi;niai), employed by E. Porter and Co. lor a nuinbei ot yeais. Ho was married to the respondent, then .Jessie Andeison. on jho 3id of May, 1877, In- the Ko\. Mr lla/.ard, and lived with his wife till the loth of July, 1884. | They li.id tour ehildien, and lived happily up till the date mentioned. He went to his wink Mrf u.-ual, and his wite (old him to buy Ins dinner instead ot coming home, as .-he was {lointf to wash. When he letunud home at o\3o p.m. his wife was mis^imj:, and (he two elder clul'ucn weie crying in the yiu}. The thiid child had been 1011, with his 'mother. He next saw his wife when she leturned from Nelson in company with H.ms l'eter Clnistian Hanson, who was undet airc-t. He saw his wife at the Auckland Railway Station, an I asked hei what she intended to do. She icplied that, she did-i i intend to do anything, and tli.it -lie was <_>oin<4 to I'tuncll. Witness accompanied her to l'ainell, and she then Mid .-lie was <,'oin# out to Mi He-Uetlfs. She wanted to j,aM Mi llesketh tD defend hei toi ill-using MiI lan-en in the tiain. He his wife .••'Mm that evening by the .lum tion Hotel, when she s< U( | th;it .she was <>oin£ to hei inuthei and lather, He went theie with hei, and she told him that h I'oter was undei the Mid she would not come back to witness a^am. She ldusod to come back to him, and lie left her at hei miit'nei s hou-e. She h.id the \ounmst, child with hei . She lemainul with hei moMierloi tlnee oi four da\.-. and ! tin n went to ( ludliev -in (i;e\ -trei t. lie ' wa- passing on one oei -i-ion. w hen his w lie i .une <iul .mil -lapjud hi^ t.iee A etowd '^.itheied, w hen Han-en came oulolCodtie\ 's hon-i . put hi- aim lound her w.n-l, j ,iinl luiid her ilnoimh tin, dooi. The I i ;<ull! t>j -. i omn\ nl tv \\ ellinji tou-sti eel, .tut l jwitm— -iw hi- wile theie about August. I The t!ne< ehildan \\<ie with him HiuiU'pul a pan ot hi aeelets on lln aimsoi the ( Ide-t uiil and told hei to take cue of ihem ull -he (the win )iitmi m d She th n •„iid -lv' would «ii home with him. itul he oileied to take hi i , but -he did not eon'e Then -he lull Auckland, and he inner saw hei altenwud-. He lieened L' 2 5- a week, and had to -uppoit hit- mothei and tlnee elultUen Thi.swaI !u* i eason w h\ these pioeeedin<rs had been itisd'uted He lelt his w lie on the List oe e.ision on Incndly terms, and kis-< d hei and the ehildien. He knew the co-iespondent, who had been ae<'Ustomed to \i-it w.tne— - hou^e He (H.MT5eu) was then only si\ months mat ' led. By Hi- llonoi . Witne-.-. had ne\ei ob--ti\ed tnv f.imilianl} between hi- w lfe and Han-en, and had ne\ci (oh.ibited wit h In - wilesitm the 15th .Ink ki-t. He had had no ( oi le-pondenee w ith Il.insenoi his wile with ie<_ r aid 'o the-c pioeeedm^Thomas Cautell deposed that in August, ICS'I, he \isitetl at (iodtiey'.s nouse and »,nv Mis tainpton, v,ho was stopping there, II ius( n, the co - le^po'ident, was al-o -toppinfr theie He had ss L > L -n Haiisen auci Mis Campion theie as late as 11 at ni^ht and hs eaily a- -iv o'clock in tile moi nine They weie suppo-ed to be living as man and \i if( . .l.ieobma l't.i'-nu, foituetlj Andei-on, (U po-ed that slu> wa- a -lstei ot Mit<C.impton She leeollec ted Mi - C'am))ton .st.i\ liv,; at (lolling - when Han-en wa- sioppinu ihuie She \i-ited het si-tci ihcie once Wiliv'-s and her -l-tei went to s>dne> m Oetobei, 1884 Hanseu went toS\dne\ pu\'on-h, and tiny met Han-en o . t' en ani\al mS\dne>. \N ltii' -s le-ided with a Mi- Andeison, and Mis C.implon i elided \w\\\ IKin^en at anothei house. \\i<ne-- wa- ni.uned m Sydney, and went with her husband toXeweastle llan-(iiand hei al-o went toNew-(a-tle, and occupied the same house a-wi(ne-'5 Han-en and her sifter wen; Iniiiu tin re as man ami wite A child was bm n in Aug-u-t. 1885, of which llan-en uathe lather H in-en and her si-ter then went by the name ot Mattei-on. Witne-s lelt Newea-tle .ibout twehe months a^o, and up till 'hat time Hansen and her sistei lnid a- man and wife. She knew that Campton was kind to her si-ter before she lelt Auckland. In ar-wer to Hi- ilonoi, witne-s said that hei sister ne\ei ua\e hei an\ icason tor le.i\ inu hei hu-band. \\ dliatn Peai-on, hu-band of Hie pre\iouwit ne--. >_>a\ c eoi 1 oboi.itn a e% idem c Chaiies William liullen deno-ed that he was a witne-s to the mania^t between Campton and Miss Andeisou, and ».nc e\idence attesting the si^natmes. His Honor said that on the e\ideuce produced, and then being no evidence ol collusion, he would entit a <h>oc< »!•>/< to be made absolute at the expiration ol three months. Costs were granted against the corespondent, and the custody of the three eldei ehildien uivcn to then hither

An mleicsting incident in iho ■story of Au-lrali.'iu exploration has just been called t.o icnu'inhrauce An oiliccr ot the Ilydiogiaphic Depattmont of the Adnuialty was sent to Western Australia iceent } to fix the topogiahuy of the coast, and (o .settle the non>enc!a(uie of unions points that wore loft unnamed. One of the places he \isited was Shaik's l>a\, about6oo miles nuith (it Feith, where Sir George (iie^ s exploring expedition mii- landed, and' nit t. with dwistei . !Sir George (then Captain) Gicy had selected as the dep<U ioi his stores mi island in Shaiks Bay wlneh could not be reached by the blacks. Tv o days alter huuliujr, a ternihe hurricane destroyed the whole ot these stores. The w halerirom which the party w cielandcd was also, it is supposed, wrecked m the same .slorm, as the was never aitciwurds heaid oi. Left with two leaky w halebdats, which Mibsequcntly became disabled, the leader so I out ior Perth, and by almost Miperhuman exertions reached that place alone in an exluuus ed condition, and \va& able to send biek succour to the members ot his party who, exhausted and dispirited, were unable do proceed further, and had boon loft in n tainting and ptaivingcondition in the wilderncfaa. Before this help reached them one young man named Smith, who had joined the expedition as a volunteer, being a personal friend ot the leader, died ot btarvation. The llydrogiaphie Officer has pei pebuated the name of this high-spirited youth by calling the point at tne entrance of the eo\e, where the ex pcdition landed, Smith's Point. The bay itself he has named Disaster Cove.