WELLINGTON DIVORCE CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1486, 18 September 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON DIVORCE CASE.

(From N. Z. Times.)

Only one case was entered for hearing in the Divorce and Matrimonial Court, which sat yesterday, HU.Honor the Chief Justice presiding. PIZZEV V. PIZZEY AND TOOOOOD. This was an application for a rule nisi, on the ground of the wife's adultery with the co-respondent. Mr Trovers appeared for, the petitioner; the respondent was not represented, but Mr FitzGerald watched the case on behalf of the" co-respondent..; The petitioner's evidence was taken. '

Thomas Puzey, the petitioner, said; I am a shepherd, and was married in Mackenzie Country, near Timaru, in 1880, to Elizabeth Fitzdawe, who had been in service as a cook. We had no angry wordswhileliyingtogether there. I knew the co-respondent Toogood as a shepherd in the same district, She became acquainted with Toogood five or six months aftor we we're married, She left me last March twelve months. I did not suspect, anything wrong. 1 gave her a cheque,to make some purchases in Timaru, and she ; took- other money, to she did riot return, I mado inquiry from the police, and alio found letters in her box which she had re c'eiVed from Toogood. ■ I followed them to Wellington five months after, and found her and,Toogood living together as man and. wife in service. She. promised to giro a month's to her employer, and then follow me on to Napier, where I Was going ,to live. 'She, sent me one letter'to Napier, but did not join me there. A'_ ; few months -elapsed, and I againsearched them out in Wellington' district. J found them living in service as a married couple at Mr Meredith's, in the, Wairar*pa—about April last. I asked if she meant to return to me, and she said if I would leave her a month she would give notice, and join me. Mo mi it was Toogood who persuaded her to run away with .him, arid she was living comfortably; with ,hirn. She did not join me, as promised, end I'lave. not seen'her since.: I had, spoken to both of them about the letters, but he just laughed. His Honor said there appeared to be no doubt about the adultery, and he granted a decree