DIVORCE CASES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10988, 11 June 1901, Page 3

DIVORCE CASES.

, m — (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) WELLINGTON, June 10. The hearing of divorce suits in chambers promises to become rather, a common practice; There is apparently not much difSculty in having it done if the parties consent. Mr Justice Edwards heard a case privately this morning under an order to that effect made by consent. It ia said that a [ clergyman on the east coast was the petiI tioner. In open court his Honour granted • decrees nisi in four uncontested petitions for dissolution of marriage. In one case the paities were married in 1868, and had seven children, in another oasa the date of marriage was 1877, and there were ten children alive. Adultery on the part of the wife was proved in both of these cases. Decrees nisi for dissolution of marriage were made in the cases of Hyland v Hyland, wife's petition, on the ground of desertion ; Livermoro v Livermore, husband's petition, on the ground of misconduct, George Dodd being joined as co-respondent; Lindsay v Lindsay (Thomas Thompson, co-respondent., on the ground of misconduct; and D. A. Wilson r W. E. Wilson, wife's petition, on the ground of the husband's habitual drunkenness and failure to maintain her.