PEERESS’ DIVORCE SUIT

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1926, Page 7

PEERESS’ DIVORCE SUIT

HUSBAND GIVES EVIDENCE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.-.-Copyright. Received Dec. 2, 8.45 p.m. London, Dec. 1. In the petition for divorce made by Lady Cheylesmore, formerly Miss Norah Parker, of Tasmania, Lord Cheylesmere gave evidence that he first met his wife through a friend. He telephoned and asked her to tea, though they had not met previously. Lord Cheylesmere sought to show that owing to the conditions of lite in Canada his wife’s mind was weakened and she also became much under the influence of her mother. He described the house in which they lived as a good bungalow, “as good as anything out West.” He had chosen Canada as his future home and was returning there immediately. Counsel quoted from a letter written by Lord Cheylesmore to a friend in England saying: “Life with her is impossible. Sooner or later there is bound to be a smash?”

A remarkable feature of the Dowager Lady Cheylesmorc’s evidence was a statement to the effect that she had I heard of a plot in which Lord Cheyles- : more’s wife was involved, to produce a. child by someone eise because she ’could not have one by her husband. She inever taxed hie wife with this, though witness had grounds for believing it. Witness denied that she had interfered between her son and daughter-in- ■ law. bn* was always kind and considerate to the latter. The hearing was adjourned.