DIVORCE LAW.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1908, Page 5

DIVORCE LAW.

AN IMPORT. NT POINT

( [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received Sept. 11, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 11. -Mr Justice Simpson, in the Divorce Court, raised, the question whether proof of service upon a party to a divorce . suit residing in New Zealand could be accepted by the Court. It had been the practice of the Court for many years to have petitions served upon people beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, but the time had come whea they should decide whether that *vas the correct practice. As far as the Court was concerned, a man in New Zealand was as much a foreigner as if' he resided, in a village in France. If the practice were not legal it would bar a great many divorces, and if in future the point were argued and a higher Coui-t decided that there was no jurisdiction, the decision would invalidate hundreds of divorces that had been granted.