R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2370, 11 August 1886, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

CABTERTON-TUKttiY. (Ijeforo H, A. Stratford, R.M.) Fred Oorkill was charged by his wife Elizabeth Oorkill, with deserting hor and leaving hor without support since August 1883. Mr Sandilands appoaTod for titf plaintiff and opoiiedtho case by stating that the defendant was mirried to the plaintiff in June, 1883, at Wellington,;" and after living with her for five or six weeks ho left hor on the proteiico of going to Wauganui to look for work. The plaintiff, boing sworn, deposed that tho defondant was hor husband and that they wero married in Wellington on the Bfch of June, 1883 (Tho marriage certificate was horo produced) and that he lived with mo for six weoks at my mother's house in Wellington after whieh time he left mo, saying ho was going to look for work. I received a lettor from him from Wanganui about a week after he left me, and 1 did not hear from him again till July 9th, 1886, On the 15th May 1884 I had a son born of whom the defondant is father, when he (defendant) came to whore I was living and offered me a house in Wellington, saying he had paid a weeks renUs advance, He with me from Ifiterton to Greytown on the day before mentioned and asked my mother to leave her place and that he would provide & home for both of us in Wellington. 1 returned to Carterton with my husband, and on tho Saturday mornine he went to Masterton and .promised to cjgMSUftife me away on the following ISHBpf ho did come back aga™ 1 have not' seen him sinoe till now. I have not received anything from liim in either money or goods, since I have been earning my own living. The morning he went away he said ho would give me some money to buy clothes but he did not do 80. Elizabeth Alderslay,. being sworn, deposed she was a widow, and was at present employed as housekeeper at Greytown. Plaintiff was her daughter. Sho remembered her daughter getting married, and they lived with her for a few weeks, when her daughter's husband left her and went" to Beek for work at Wanganui. She remembered her dauphter getting a letter.from her husband l and remembered her answering it. Shortly aftorwards witness'husband died, and her daughter being naghant, she was placed in the homo fsr females. Witness broke up 'her home and went to service. Her daughter came to her in Carterton when her child waa three weeks old. „ v ~' . . . The'defoud'ant, in reply to the Bench, said: When I came back to Wellington, I som« three, years ego, I made

' ■■-•' foF'ihe 'whereabouts ! of'irtf wtfe > \ J u {' eould'not : heaf anything of her until 4happened to sen Mi' fialsmussen; amlhe • told Jiie that she was in Cartertun.' Vi itm.' 'n'cs3 stated that.ho wnU'willing'to support '" - hiV.wite when hehad tho ineaiiß to do so, . tut at presoat he was out of employ. The occupation he followed wag that of cuok, Ho'was ordered to pay 10a per week towards the support of his wife, 'the first piiyinonftobeniadejitthe R.M. Court, ■Maaterton.ontkWtlrinsfc.i with costs £1 83 to bo paid by tho 31st inst.