DIVORCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1126, 26 July 1883, Page 3

DIVORCE.

Justice Butt, Judge of the Divorce Court, has just pronounced a decision which will be read with painful interest in New South Wales and New Zealand, where the parties to the suit were welL known. Major Edward Beauchamp St. John, son-in-law of one of the most popular colonial Governors, appealed for dissolution oi his marriage on the ground of his wife’s adultery with Major G. Newcombe Stevenson. The painful details of this miserable case have not been reported at any length, but the main facts are shortly these Major and Mrs St. John were married in Ceylon, on the Bth June, 1870, and there was one child of the marriage, They lived happily at various places at which petitioner held appointments. In August, 1882, Mrs St. John left her husband in Cape Colony and went to England with her child and mother The respondent and her husband parted on affectionate terms, but on his arrival last December, he received a letter from her stating that he had always treated her with kindness and consideration, but that she had long before ceased to care for him, and did not intend to return to cohabitation. Evidence was given that the respondent and co-respondent had stayed at an hotel in England as man and wife. The Court pronounced a decree nisi with costs, Major E, B. St, John having relinquished the appointment of Military Secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, has been succeeded by Major G, B. Bayle, of the Rifle Brigade,