CHEYLESMORE DIVORCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1926, Page 5

CHEYLESMORE DIVORCE

CASE FOR. RESPONDENT. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Decembei - 1. Evidence was given by Lord Cheylesmore in the dase in which Lady formerly Nora Parker, an Australian, is petitioning for a divorce from her husband, whom she married in 1914 when a chorus girl, almost fresh from Tasmania. Lofid Cheylesmore gave evidence that he first met his wife through a friend. He telephoned and asked her to tea. They had not met previously. Lord Cheylesmore sought to show that, owing to the conditions ■of their life in Canada, his wife’s mind had weakened. He said that she also became much under the influence of her mother. He described the house in which they lived as “a .■good bungalow—as good as anything out West.” He had chosen Canada as his future home, and he was returning there immediately. Counsel quoted from a letter written by Lord Cheylesmore to a friend In England, saying: ‘‘Life with her is impossible. Sooner or later there is bound to be a smash.” The Dowager Lady Cheylesmore gave evidence. The remarkable feature' of the Dowager’s evidence was her -Statement to the effect that she had heard of a plot in'which the wife df the respondent was involved, •to produce a child by someone else, because' she could not have one by her husband. The Dowager said she had never taxed the wife with this, though witness had grounds for believing it. Witness denied that she had interfered between her son and her daughter-' in-law, but said she was always kind and considerate to the wife. The hearing was adjourned. OVERSEAS JURISDICTION. i- LONDON, December 1. In the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for India, Earl Winterton, moved the second reading of the Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Bill, conferring on the Indian and Dominion Courts jurisdiction in certain cases in respect of the dissolution of the marriages the parties to which are domiciled in England and Scotland, though living in India or in a Dominion, and also validating decrees granted. The bill was read the second time.