A HALF-CASTE'S MARRIAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 8

A HALF-CASTE'S MARRIAGE.

AU.Ei.ED Ml-:t)Nin CT OF THE \VI FE. Ililf.-.i.V Maors »ere the r art,es ;, ii divorce suit, heard in fan AurUind Supreme Court 10-dtiy. when \ r f m . A.llam, represented by Mr. 1.. A. Singer petitioned for releaec from Tuti Adlam ni, ih,- jrround nf In-;- nvfe.md.ct itu Tonihi Palmer. Married on .'-epi.emlwr i 1.... 1007, th' parties wont to live a: Tauranjn. Tto and a-half ye-ars ago, ...id ihe petition?:, while amy from home he received mrsea.oe from hi* wife-'.- mother v."ii!. him t.n return home it on: -.__Tivrc vie. .. family ..iaeureiion. .11. which the -wife was present, and njs charged wiih misccraducr. She admitted her jnilt. .tml lie aocordJTir.ly left her ant had not lived wiih hcT i-'nc. >',neo .hen he had heart that she -had given 'birt'i to p, eln'lii. Petitioner produeeil a letter from his xvifc, written in Mri<rri. which he all.:™ed ; contained an admissi.'.li Iha; the child was by PaJm-er. ellis Honor in 1 imat«d that, in virir ,-,[ the fact that the correspondence mis in Maori he would put the ease hark ii ,-rrdor to _&-ei_t_n whether it was necessary, in t.ho <-3.-o of lialf-ea-ies, f.i; the citations tn he in ihe native l.iir'rua.i'.