SOCIETY DIVORCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 December 1926, Page 5

SOCIETY DIVORCE.

RESPONDENT’S EVIDENCE. Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Dec. 1. In the petition for divorce made by Lady Choylesmore, formerly Miss Norah Parker of Tasmania, Lord Cheylesmcre gave evidence that he first met his wife through a friend. He telephoned and asked her to tea, though they had not mot previously. Lord Clieylesmere sought to _ show that owing to the conditions of life m Canada his wife’s mind was weakened and 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 was returning there immediately. Counsel quoted from a letter written by Lord Cheylesmcre to a friend in England saying: "Life with her is impossible. Sooner or later there is bound to be a smash?" A remarkable feature ef the Dowager Lady Cheylesmcre’s evidence was a statement to the effect that she had heard of a plot in wnich Lord Cheylesmere’s wife was involved, to produce a child by someone else because she could not have one by her husband. She never taxed his wife with this, though witness had grounds for believing it. Witness denied that she had interfered between her son and daughter-in-law, but was always kind and considerate to the latter. The hearing was adjourned.