PECULIAR CASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15861, 26 February 1912, Page 5

PECULIAR CASE.

HUSBAND AND WIFE. [Pur Press Association.]

AUCKLAND. February 24

Somewhat unusual circumstances were disclosed in a case brought by Margaret Harrison for a separation order, her husband, Charles Arthur Harrisjn, being charged with failing to provide maintenance. A previous application had been made in Wellington, and was abandoned, according to defendant's solicitor, because offers had been made towards n. settlement. Defendant is tho proprietor of the Royal Hotel, "Wellington. -Counsel added that this case might be abandoned later in view of divorce proceedings. Plaintiff paid she had been living on what her husband had given her, and what sho raved, about £ISOO. There was probably about £ooo remaining. She admitted that in Wellington she stayed at tho best hotels, and also that she wrote to her husband a letter threatening to commit bigamy, but that was a joke. The Magistrate said that he could not make nn order on the evidence produced. The complainant was not destitute, nor w?.s lie satisfied that she was not being maintained. If she wished the matter thoroughly investigated she had better go to the Wellington Supremo Court. The case was dismissed without prejudice.