MAINTENANCE CASES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 298, 15 December 1911, Page 4

MAINTENANCE CASES.

! SETTLING DAT IN OOGBI. A smaller number oi maintenance earns than usual came"before Mr. BTttK at the ff.M, Court this morning. Several cases were adjourned until after tke. holidays, and no lawyers were present. MONEY FOB. fiAC3ST*"~ - ; "He can find money for the neM,"' was tire eompiaimt raised by one wile, I when she applied for an increase of a maintenance order against her husbind. I la support of her assertion sh*' haadsd lin a lot of racing cards. As the bas--1 tend was working on a farm in the awn. try bis Worship adjoarned the cast till next January to iave inquiries made. PAWNED HER WEDDING W2KL Daniel Sullivan wa3 cited to answer 12 application for a sepaiation order, for maintenance and guardianship of a chili j The wife said they had been marrirt 13 j years. Since her husband had takaa.to j drink the last couple of years, he bad I knocked her about. He lmnrfrfifl lor j down a week after she came out of tit hospital. I The husband deposed he did not Wilt* liia money in drink. He might get tapy r but not drunk. Mr. Kettle: You are drawing a distinction.. Witness said he had never gone noma in a drunken condition. He had given his wife a shaking, but never struck her: Be shook his wife because he came noma and found his wife lying on the bed under the influence of drink. The wife, being recalled, said she had never spent a penny of her husband"* I money in drink. She had to pawn ttef j wedding-ring to get a cab to take her ; home from the hospital. His Worship decided to call a number of neighbours to try and get the facts uf the case, owine to the conflictang statements made. The case was accordi ingly adjourned.