Auckland Supreme Court.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7909, 26 August 1905, Page 3

Auckland Supreme Court.

Divorce Decrees.

(Per Press Association.) AICKLAND, Aug. 25. At the Supreme Court Ada Hav ,? c , t 1 ' tloncd ,or a diVi.rce from Alfred Collins on "the ground of descruon. Petitioner said she was raarried on January lu, 1900, In the Registrar's office, at Auckland, and she went to keep house for her sister as Auckland f or a fortnight, durinwhich time her husband lived with , 3 her hua,and went to Papakur*, with some hora-s, B nd she went to her people in the Wai--5 "J' !' arranged that her husbyd should follow later on. Several affectionate letters wosq U l - - them, in which her husband promised to ride in a race a fortm?hV later. then to give up the turf for good, and come and settle down alougade his "own little pet." I'eti tioner said that at last her husband came up to her people'at Hamilton He said he had promised to take some horses to Dergaville, and after this he would return and settle From this time onward She never saw or heard from her husband again.

Mrs Alice TSitbutt, petitioner's sister. gave evidence of respondent and othis "boys" renting a house and having a jolly time in it with sonv girls.

A decree nisi was granted, to i„ made absolute after three months John Samuel Brighouse petitioned for B divorce from Lillian Harriet Brighouse on .he ground/of desi rtir n Petitioner said he was marrie.l in i"" 0 ' and U,er» was one ffiild. They lived together iappilv (or 16 or 18 months. His work took him away from home for frequent intervals. He spent Very little tuoner Oil himself, being neither a drinker nor a Rambler, hut his wages were i, mi■■ I ficient to finance his wife's .extravagant habits. She gave numerous parties, and he got into debt. Finally he resolved .that they should leave the temptations of Kaeo. He went to Dannevirke. but, at his wife's request, she remained behind to allow him time to provide a home there A fortnight after he left Kaeo he receded a startling letter from his wife, in which she complained that he had left her in an Uncomfortable home, with a child sick and no firewood. Petitioner said the child was well when he left home, and he left »ix months' supply of firewood. She declared that after the way in whiab he had bullied, insujtcd, and sneered at her she would ne" er live with, him again._ Petitioner >; id he replied to this letter absolut l.v denying the charts, ami as',in> In r to come down, lie then received a cartoon ol a Salvation Army bandsman, in *h c -. ''<■ recognised the pennlinship of his wife. !!.■ had joined tfce Salvation Army on reaching Dannevirke. Petitioner said he visited Kaeo to see his wife aod reconcile her, but she would not have anything to do with him. He went to her mother ai>d asked her if die could tell him what was tha reason of this te«haviour, and his mother-in-law said it was beoause he was to,, prim and would not let her go ajiout to dances and other things just a s she liked. A decree nisi was granted, to be iqade absolute after three months. Janet Dawson petitioned for a divorce from Duncan Campbell Forbes Dawson on tile ground of adultery. Petitioner said she married in December, 188fi, and one chilli was living. In 1902 a Mrs Stanley was living at Manukau Heads as postmistress. Mrs Stanley's husband died next year, and th« petitioner took! pity on her as a lonely widow, and did many acts of kindness. In February respondent confessed to petitioner that Mrs Stanley was about to give birth to a child of his. In spite of petitioner's protests, Mrs Stanley w a s kept in the house. Petitioner w*nt to a private hospital to be operated on, ind after the operation she was broueht <>afik on a stretcher, and found that the woman was still there. Four days later, against the doctor's orders, petitioner got up and left the house for good. His Honour said the point might tie Mised that the unfortunate wife had apparently Condoned the offence. For the petitioner, Mr Reed said it was an unwilling condonanCe, as a sick womaii could not very well fight against it. Rvidence was given that respondent bad admitted that he was now cohabiting with Sirs StanK-y.i His Honour deferred granting a. decree nisi until Monday to enable Ml Iteed to make application fol maintenance. Maude Christian petitioned for a divorce from her husi/and, Timothy ) Pacaril Christian, on the ground of rape on a little girl. Petitioner said she was an hotel cook at WaiUku up to tie time Of her marriage . in ISO 9. ami they then lived together in Auckland till May, 1903, when ler husbatd was arrested and i Cr.n' ic--;:. and < n account of this Convictio-; she M"if h> for a divorce. Mr rc. chief ssol r, said the respondent- was urd; r.-ioinn a setltencg of tfM ypprc. ' His fbnoir erpress'd regret that the law did not i> -rinrt a conviction to b> accep'e-1 as proof in a Case of this Mid ui'hout making it necessary fur U'.r ! tory to le erne over arm. A iiei-r-e nisi was irr,int<*l, ' t<> te made absolute, with custody of tlw child, after three ninths.