DIVORCE CASE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1911, Page 5

DIVORCE CASE.

A petition for dissolution of marriaga on the ground of tlasertioh was he&rd> by Mr. Justice Sim to-d&y. Th© pftrtieft were teliaabeth kowther. petitioner, and Frederick Jameß Tjowtner, commeNjiftl traveller, tespofldeht. Nt, F. E. Pethcrick appeared for petitioner, According to the evidence, the putties were married oti lOth April, 1835, at Melbourne, and they lived at Fitzroy, afterwards in England, and later in Melbourne. There wns one child of the marriage, wlrTch had died in England. On or ftbout ScptoniW, 1901, petitioner's husband deserted her without cftiiee. JJoWther said .he was going to the Boer W«r, and he disappeared. She had received' no money from her husband for tea years, ftis Honour held tlmt there ehould bo Borne eorrotooratiott of peti> tionw'd etory. although Jie knew it wa« difficult in this case. Josephine Kelly then gAVe «vld«w>e, She *tod she had been wardrobe mietrfeM for the J. . C. Williamson Company for twenty-five y«afs. Petitioner Jmd bwn maintaining herself by working for the "company during the past five yea-f*. The cnee was adjourned until" 10 ft.tn. tfft Monday, for respondent's domicile ia New Zealßnd to bo proved.