WELLINGTON SESSIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 5

WELLINGTON SESSIONS

BX TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. i WELLINGTON, May 14. Tfae divorce case, John McVicker v. Emily Sarah McVicker, for dissolution of marriage on the ground of desertion, was to have come before Mr Justice Chapman and a jury to-day. The petition was filed four years ago, when respondent obtained an order for security for her own costs, which was never complied with. Respondent was not herself in a position to talto any action until just recently, when she waived the order and filed her answer asking for a dissolution on- the ground of desertion. Mr P. W. Jackson, counsel for petitioner, said that the matter was of so long standing that he had got oust of touch with the husband. He- had bksw located him at Napier. They were in communication, and counsel was awaiting a letter. He mentioned thai Me>Vickers might not desire to go on with the petition, in which case the wife's prayer for relief would be heard' as an undefended case. The matter is to be mentioned again. The case in which Gray and Jackson, solicitors, sued Oliver Mewhinney for £245 5s 2d, balance of Mrs Mewhinney s costs, subsequent to the granting of a decree nisi, was concluded in the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice- Cooper. ■ The Court's judgment was for the plaintiff for the bill of costs. His Honor said that he could not fix the- amount, which was ordered to be referred to the Registrar of the Court for taxation up to the making and taking out of orders of June 9, 1910, and anything arising therefrom, but including the costs of the appeal, the parties to have tfoe ordinary right of review on the registrar's taxation. The question of the oosts of the present action was reserved;.