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Grey River Argus, 4 August 1925, Page 2

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WIFE’S DEBTS. ‘ ? - pArAMOUR MENTIONED. LONDON, July 8. Mr Justice Eve today refused to grant the injunction applied fur by Lady Beecham, restraining her husband, Sir Thomas Beecham, the wellknown io iductor and composer, from publishing an ‘ advertisement, disclaiming responsibilities for his wife’s debts, pending the action in the Courts. Both husband and wile were present. The husband’s affidavit asserted that his wife indulged in a course of financial eccentricity in order to ruin him. She purchased an £11,00(1 pearl necklace, a id balloons and aeroplanes ‘‘for her son’s meteorological education. ’ ’ In addition, lie declared, she embarked on extravagant operatic enterprises, ami also bought and furnished a West End mansion fitted for a person of unlimited moans. The wife’s counsel asserted that the husband objected to his wife's purchasing a house in Grosveuor-square near another her husband had purchased for occupation by a paramour. He thereupon revoked the provision which his wife understood included a Rolls Royce limousine. Sir Thomas Beecham denied that he purchased a house in Grosvenor-squaro for a paramour. His income did not exceed £15,000, after reduction of income tax. The wife said her husband's income exceeded £25,000.