DIVORCE COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1898, Page 6

DIVORCE COURT.

« Tnis Day. \Beture His Honour the Chief Justice.) Thomas Kemp, labourer, sued for a divorce from his wife on the ground of her adultery with Archibald Corkhill. Petitioner, for whom Mr. Wilford appeared, said he married the respondent in August, 1891, and they had no children. Corkhill lodged with him in September, 1895, and when he returned home from work one night his wife and Corkhill had disappeared, taking their clothes with them. Eighteen months afterwards he traced them to Masterlon, where the}' were living together on a station as man and wife. A. J. Asher corroborated the last-stated fact. The case was not defended, and a decreo nisi was granted, to be made absolute at the first sitting after three months, costs on the lowest scale being given against the co-respondent. Mary Frances Martin asked for a divorce from M. P. Martin, plumber and tinsmith, on the grounds of cruelty and adultery. The parties were married on Christmas Da}', 1893. and had one child. Petitioner alleged that her husband had several times threatened to murder her, and had often struck her. Eventually he turned her out of tho house, and they iiad been p:irted for three }'ears. yiie summoned him for maintenance and got an order for payment of 7s a week. He was now living with another woman. A decree nisi was granted with costs, the mother to have the custody of the child. Mr. Wilford appeared for the petitioner, and tho suit was undefended. Cruelty and adultery were also alleged by Ellen Pedersen as the ground for a divorce from her husband, OleN. Pedersen, a fisherman. They were married in September, 188G, and had two children, but had not lived together for the last 12 months. Petitioner had had to summon her husband for protection, and had seen him in company with women of reputed loose character. William Ah Tong,who had been engaged by Mrs. Pedersen to watch the respondent, also gave evidence. The case was undefended, and n decree nisi was granted, with costs, petitioner to have the custody of the children. Mr. Wilford supported the petition.

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