MORE DIVORCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 278, 23 November 1929, Page 11

MORE DIVORCES.

FIFTY-FIVE PETITIONS HEARD

MR. JUSTICE SMITH'S BUSY DAY.

STRUCK WITH MALLET HANDLE.

Of sixty-six divorce petitions set down for hearing at.the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Smith disposed of 55.

A decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted Mary Jane Eglinton against Robert John Eglinton (Mr. McLiver).- It was stated by Mr. Singer, who appeared for petitioner, that the parties 'had been separated_ for 33 years. The marriage took place in 1891, and separation occurred in 1896.,

The brutality of a husband was described by Daisy Josephine' Dent [ (Mr. Matthews), who petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Albert Dent, which took place at Russell in February, 1921. Petitioner said, that on one'occasion she had to go to hospital, for five weeks as the result of respondent kicking her in the back. Another time her husband broke the head off a croquet mallet, and beat her with the handle. He told her to clear out of it and not to dare eatne back. She had been frightened to return. A decree nisi was granted.

Failure to comply with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights was the grounds of the issue of a decree, nisi in the case brought bv Wra. Archibald Murray Harp (Mr. Wallace) against Florence May Harp. Petitions were successful on the grounds of separation in the following cases: Margaret Nolan Wilde (Mr; Dickson) v. John Robt. Wilde; Mur.el Esther Rodders' (Mr. Good) v. Benjamin B. RodgVs; Doreeh M. Keene (Mr.*intaj) v. Arthur H. Keene; Annie Kealey (Mr. West) v. Ralph A. Kealey; Charles F. Goldsboro (Mr. Singer) v. May Goldsbro; Lorraine Moore (Mr. Singer) v. Ralph W Moore; Leslie William David Jelft (Mr. Singer) v. Gladys E. Jelfs. Desertion was successfully pleaded as the ground's for divorce in the following cases': Dorothv Mitchell (Mr. Schramm) v. George Mitchell; Ethel Maude Morgan (Mr. Ennor) v.. Arthur Morgan;, Lucy Emma Walker (Mr. King) v. Richard J. Walker. Decrees nisi were issued in each case. , "'*

A decree nisi was granted to Daphne Iv. Patchett (Mr. Bryce Hart), whose permanent separation from her husband, Colin H. Patchett, dated from only ten days after the marriage in May, 1926. Orders for restit\ition of conjugal rights were made in the following cases: George Pearce Jackson (Mr. Butler) against Hilda Jackson; Harry Kirby (Mr Finlay) against Eleanor Kirby (Mr. Singer); Robert Alfred Francis Taylor (Mr. Singer) against Fiona M. Taylor; Catherine May Carder (Mr. Sinsrer), asainst Lewis E. Carderffi Susan Pitts (Mr. Matthews) against William Francis Pitts.