DIVORCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 5

DIVORCE.

WIFE'S ALLEGED DESERTION. At the Supreme Court to-day Adolpb Frederick Willia.m Lorie sued for a divorce from his wife, Sarah Ellen Lorie, on the grounds of desertion. Mr. Justice Ooopf r was on the Bench. Mr. C. P. Skerrett, and with him Mr. Bagnell, jun., represented tho petitioner, and Mr. K. Mahony appeared for respondent, who was not present at the proceedings. Mr. Mahony intimated that the action would be undefended. Mr. Skerrett, in outlining the married, career of the parties, gaid that they were wedded in Wellington on December, 1881, and at various periods had lived at Wanganui, Auckland, Nelson and Dnnedin. In May, 1906, the respondent ■wilfully deserted petitioner without junt cause for five years, and from that tim* had continued to desert him. Mr. Skerrett then quoted voluminous correspondence that had passed between the which di«4osrd the remarkable incompatibility of temperaments that existed. The petitionr-r'* story *was on similar lines to that stated by Mr. Skerrett. The first real trouble, he eaid, had come when, he engaged a governess to look after the children in Dunediin. In January, 1905, he obtained a deed of separation which provided that they should live in the *a.me ho-use, hut iK>t as man an wife. His Honor reserved his decision to enable him to peruse the papers and correspondence dealing with the case.