A HUSBAND'S ETHICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1920, Page 5

A HUSBAND'S ETHICS.

PECULIAR DIVORCE SUIT. CONSTRUCTIVE DESERTION. Constructive desertion was the grounds upon which Bulce Grace Coleman (Mr. Hall Skclton) sought a, divorce from Oswald Henry Coleman before .Mr. Justice Hoskinjj at the Auckland Supreme Court, writes the New Zealand Times' special correspondent, i ihe petitioner stated that she wis marnod in May, 1914, at St. Matthew's Church. After seven weeks' honeymoon in Australia the parties returned lo this country A few months later :he respondent did not seem to want witness any more, and did not want to cohabit with her. They had not couibitea since 1915. Witness considered her husband a very nice sort of man and was still willing to live with him if lit would live with her.

Counsel read certain letters from the | respondent stating that he had ceased |to love his wife, and considered it would be a grievous wrong, both to him and to herself, as well as having a . debasingeffect on them, if they renewed cohabitation. He could not honorably live with a woman he did not love Ho did not think it fair to bring children into the world where the parties did not love each other.

His Honor said that the respondent seemed to take a lofty attitude. The letters provided sufficient corroboration and he would grant a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months