"FALSE PRETENCES."

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 5

" FALSE PRETENCES."

] MAN DECEIVES HIS WIFE. I divorce the sequel. i Circumstances of an unusual cliarj acter were related by Florence Lucy J Blanche MaeDonald (Mr. Leary) in the 1 Supreme Court to-day, when she brought I a petition for a divorce from Francis ' Arthur MaeDonald. I On November 1. 1021. they were mar- , ried at Auckland, she said, and two days i later her husband confessed that the J means which he had represented to her las being his were non-existent. He confessed that he did not own a business in Hamilton, as he had represented, and that lie had taken £1500 sent for 'her by relatives. This money he had j spent. He said lip had no home for j her. and that the best thing she could jdo was to return to Tier people. They held a conference four days after the , marriage, when solicitors were present. i Respondent then handed her a paper i evidencing the fact that he had niar- | ried her under false pretences, i Mr. Justice Hcrdman:' Did you leave him. or did he leave you? I Petitioner: He lsft mc. J She stated that there had been no ! children of the marriage, and respondent j had not maintained her. A decree nisi : was granted.