LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 534, 15 June 1909, Page 11

LAW REPORTS.

~ SUPREME COURT. : ;.Cvy,:-SyBUN:DIVORCE STJIT. ".]._ ;/■'- ;-:\:His ! \Honour-Mr. •'Justice Sim yesterday ... hearci the■evident of ', oho witness in ...the ; divorce:action, Nazzha Kallil Noon v. Noon ': Aesa4 Noonja wife's petition on the ground ■ of;desertion.■'-,■•■■■.• '■..'.. -..'."..."... . •■' s 'Mr. Gray appeared for the petitioner, : whom he stated, to bo , ill with influenza., He desired the Court to hear the evidence of a witness who had business in,the King' Coun- . ■ try, and {that further hearing of the petition Should b& heard later. : \ ,• ; ; Kinnan Kallil el Sham deposed that the petitioner, his sister, had been married to the respondent seventeen years ago, at Sibel, in tho Mount Lebanon district, Syria. . ft'itness was then about ' eleven , years of age. The parties were married by a priest, Father Joseph, in the Roman Cathoho 7 (Maronito) religion. A child was born, and the respondent Jeft for Australia about a year after the marriage/ - ; The petitioner, with her;little boy,: Nayeff, camo to Australia- nine months later, and' three yeara ago was keeping a.drapery and fancy goodsshop inLambton Quay. Witness camo out to ' Madagascar, and South' Atnca, and arrived in New Zealand nine years ago. His cousin '/''■ and he were now,keeping a shop and billiard saloon at'Ohura, in tho Auckland pro- ' vince. Three, years ago ho had .seen the respondent in Wellington,'■ and once up-coun- ... try;he was not'living with' the petitioner. ,■ Further hearing of the petition was ad- : joumed until-Thursday morning.