THE DIVORCE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 14526, 30 November 1910, Page 4

THE DIVORCE COURT

[Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 30. Elizabeth Peace, boarding-house keeper, gave evidence in Die Divorce Court this morning. She stated that at the ago of sixteen, in tho year 1886, she married William Peace, who deserted her twelve mouths later. In 1890 she was informed that Peace had been killed iu an accident at Dunedin. She had read the account of such an accident in a newspaper. Three years later she went through the form of marriage with one Peter ATCaLe, and lived three years with him. Then ho left her and went away with another woman, whom he had since, married. .‘Viter twenty years’ absence William Peace turned up in 1907, and in 1908 Mrs Peace obtained a divorce on the ground of desertion. Her petition for nullity of her marriage with M'Calm was granted. Jessie Catherine Kelson was granted a decree nisi against Frank Nelson, otherwise Oliver Bambridge, a lecturer, who, slie stated, married her in Auckland, but left her penniless in America after treating her cruelly. ■ Decrees nisi were also granted to Mary Ann Ellis v. John Thomas Ellis (desertion) ; Mary Gibb v. Robert Gibb (misconduct) ; Brendor Gordon v. John K-aan (desertion) ; William AI orris Barton v. Alary Ann Barton (desertion and misconduct). In the case of Julia, Wilson Smith v. Harold Wilson Smith, gu application for a decree nisi on Die ground of drunkenness and cruelty, the Judge declined to make a decree until the regulations of tho new law introduced in April bad been complied with.