DIVORCE CASE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 135, 8 June 1906, Page 5

DIVORCE CASE.

COT TELEOHAMr:— r-BESS ASBOCIATION.J t .v AUCKLAND, 7th June. In the Divorce Conrt to-d»y- a. nuddlo aged' woman named Charlotte Cume petitioned for a divorce from her husband, George Currie, upon grounds of persistent cruelty and failure to support. Charlotte Currie, who described herself as a, school mistress, residing at Huirangi, Taranaki, said she was married to a-espondent in September, 1884, at thfi Registrar's Office, Auckland. She mar ried him against her parents' wishes, and without tiheir consent, respondent was a farmer, and 6ue went to live with him at Waiuku. She had four children. Petitioner said her husband attended all raco meetings in tjhe country, and was constantly away from home. Continuing, petitioner said her husband's conduct to her was unkind and cruel, especially* when they were alone. On one occasion, when she ' complained about his not getting Up for breakfast, he took down t> revolver and threatened to shoot her. She informed him that he might, as her life was not t^oi-th much then. la November, 1892, she mad© up her mind to leave him. Somft time ago her hu*<

band instituted divorce proceedings •gainst her upon grounds of desertion, but did not proceed when she notified •he would appear. A decree nisi, to be moved absolute in three months, was granted. Costs were allowed on the highestl scale.