MATRIMONIAL TROUBLES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 830, 17 March 1909, Page 3

MATRIMONIAL TROUBLES.

CUBIOCSCJ^OR* AITCKfPEE PEEB3 ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, March 115 It is not often that a man ol ei«'hty-four and a woman ot sevwivj enter into a matrimonial compact, but sucli a case was before Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., at the Police Court this afternoon. Alien Hickey pioceeded against Patrick Hickey, nei husband, for failing to maintain her while Patrick Hickey proceeded against Alice Hickey for alleged assault, and asked that she be bound over to keep the peace towards him for twelve months. Patrick Hickey was stated to ho eighty-four years of age, and his wife about seventy. They had been married only since August last. The husband, it was alleged, had represented that he had £200 in the savings bank and a mortgage of £500 over some property. A month after the marriage Hickey "cleared out, saying that he was going to Rotorua for his health. Evidence was given by Mrs Hickey to the effect that she was now unable to support herself owing to failing eyesight. She denied ever having assaulted Hickey. After hearing the evidence, his Worship refused to make an order for maintenance, as the old man had nothing, and the application to have Mrs Hickey bound over to keep the peace was adjourned sine die, to he brought on at twenty-four hours' notice. WKtmmmmmmmimmami jmm