SUPREME COURT

Grey River Argus, 24 June 1925, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

greymoutk civil sittings. (Bcl'oie His Honour, Mr Justice Alpers.) Th'.? Greymouth sittings of the Supreme Court were opened yesterday before His Honour, Mr Justice 'Alpers. Neil Joseph Bruce Culbng was grained a discharge from bankruptcy. IN DIVORCE. Matilda Mary Turner applied for a dissolution of her marriage with James Turner. Petitioner stated that her husband was at the front for some time. When respondent returned to New Zealand he asked petitioner to i-lrnnge her name, which she did. Respondent took all the allotment money and went away a week aftei he had returned. Petitioner had net seen him since. Henry Kirk, Secretary of the Grey. mouth Watersiders’ Union, stated that respondent was a member of that body for some time prior to going to the front. Witness had received a letter from respondent, written, in l i g in which he stated that “he had finished with his wife.” His Honour granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months. Mr W. J. Joyce appeared for petitioner. In the case of Paterson v. Paterson, an application for an order for the restitution of conjugal rig!.. Paterson (Reefton) appeared for petitioner, James W. Paterson, coal miner, of Reelton. Respondent was Myrtle Constance Paterson, now of Danne. virke. The parties were married in Nelson, and had lived in various parts of New Zealand. Respondent left Petitioner at Huntly in 1912, going to Auckland. She had refused all petitioner’s overtures to return to him, and for some time past had been living al Dannevirke under an assumed name. Muriel Paterson, a daughter of petitioner. stated that she visited her mother in Dannevirke at Christmas time. Her mother was living under a different name. Witness and her sister had corresponded with their mothTo His Honour:, Witness’s father was now living with her mother. Witness had been living with him for three His Honour stated he was satisfied petitioner was honest in his endeavour to induce his wife to come back, and granted the application.