DIVORCE CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 2

DIVORCE CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Friday.

At the Supreme Court, Auckland, to-day, ths divorce cose, Robert Fawcett Elizabeth Fawcett, respondent, and William Edward Downey, co-respondent, came on for hearing. Fawcelt deuobed that he was married on the Uth of January 1877, and cohabited with his wife near Oxfoid up to the sth of October, \\\t to which time he had no reason to suspect her. Saw her off to Auckland at that date, whore sho was goiug to stay with her sister, and he received a letter from Downey, stockman on the station, on the 10th uf October. He (Downey) had been living a little over two years in their house. He left the day before Mrs Fawcett. He said he was going to Auckland, and then from there North. Asserted that he was living wit!) his wife. Never observed any familiarity between his wife and co-respondent. Hugh Campbell testified to seeing an act of adultery between Mr* Fawcett and corespondent in Mr Fawcett's house one morning. Margaret Costelo, employed at Wynyard House during October last, as waitress, deposed that Downjy and Mrs Fawcett stopped at Wynyard House at the beginning of October. They stayed in the same bedroom. His Honour granted a decree nisi, with costs against the co-respon-dent.' •