SUPREME COURT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

NAPIER CRIMINAL SESSION. FRIDAY. JUNE 30th. ! (Before Mr. Justice Chapman.) i CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. | The jury retired at 5.15 p.m., and ; after four hours’ deliberation, when ; sent for by the Judge, intimated; through their foreman that there! was no possibility of their agreeing; to a verdict. His Honour said that all he could . do under the circumstances was to j discharge the jury. ; Mr. Coinford applied for a new ; trial, to take place next week after \ the re-trial of another prisoner in ; whose case the jury hal also dis-! agreed. - His Honour granted the applica-; tion, intimating that the case would ; be heard in its proper order before' a jury’ of the panel summoned for next week. SATURDAY, JULY Ist. DIVORCE. The Supreme Court resumed at 9.30 this morning for the purpose of hearing divorce business. ' BIMLER v. BIMLER. ; The first case taken was that of ! Kai Harkyar Binder v. Elsie Grace ■ Binder, husband’s petition on the ; grounds of desertion. ! The husband, in the witness-box, ! said he was a shepherd and had ; been married since April, 1906. ; They’ went to his ivrfe’s mother’s ! house on the first night after marriage, and occupied separate I rooms. He married for the’child’s t sake and affection for his wife, but she had refused to live with him. He had a comfortable home to offer her. He had repeatedly asked his wife to come and live with him. He did not object to his wife keeping the child. No objection to the application i was raised. ' A decree nisi was granted, to be made absolute in three months ; the wife to have interim custody of the child. Costs £7/7/- were allowed. Mr. Wood appeared for the bus-' hand, and Mr. Sproule for the wife. I BRUCE v. BRUCE. ! Edith M. J. Bruce v. D. S. Bruce, adultery. Mr. Lusk applied for a decree absolute in this case. His Honor granted a decree absolute and with the wife’s custody ; of the children, costs £2 '2'-. ! TATHAM v. TATHAM. , Benjamin Tatham petitioned for! divorce from Ada Tatham on 1 the! grounds of adultery with one John Alexander Slater. ; Mr. Lusk appeared for the petitioner. Benjamin Tatham said he was; married in Yorkshire in 1903 and ; came to the colony in 1908. They! resided at Havelock. When living! at Havelock they’ became acquaint-; ed with Slater, who visited the 1 house. Later he objected to his; visits because he thought his wife; was becoming too intimate with i him. In September, 1909, he left the house because his wife refused to give up her intimacy’ with Slater. He tried his best to stop this intimacy. Recently hq visited a house on ‘Whitehead road, Hastings, and ■ saw Slater and his wiki living there together. There were two children of his marriage. He had seen the ■ certificate of the birth of an illcgi- ; timate child to Slater and his wife. ! Mrs. Jane Thompson knew Sla- ! ter, who lived next door to her with Mrs. Tatham and two children. They appeared to be living together ! as man and wife. Mr. Dolan made a formal appear- ; ance for the defendants. | A decree nisi was granted to be made absolute in three months. Costs against the co-respondent on lowest scale.