DIVORCES GRANTED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 November 1919, Page 2

DIVORCES GRANTED.

SIX APPLICATIONS HEARD. A WEEX-ENH INCIDENT. ANOTHER WOMAN IN HOUSE. Six divorce oases were heard by Mr Justice Stringer in the Supreme Court yesterday. Adultery and cruelty wore the grounds upon which Rose Watt, OH’ Singer) applied for dissolution of her marriage with Alexander James Watt, a. ‘seaman. The parties wore married in .1915/ and lived' Mount, Eden and Remuera., According to the petitioner, her husband suggested to her one Saturday that 'she should) spend 'the week-end with some friends in the country, and as he had often asked her before sh© agreed. When she returned on the Monday she found a. strange woman in the house, also a note from thei respondent, who had left on a coastal trip, stating that “Lily” would stay until Wednesday, and asking her to look after , the woman for his Petitioner met her husband oh his return, and ho admitted that he. arid the woman had' occupied the same room during \jjhc week-end. Petitioner* immediately left home and. went to Whan* garei, hut after three weeks her husband persuaded * her to return. She remained with him until August 3 last, When the climax occurred. The respondent’s conduct could 1 not have been worse, and he had repeatedly threatened! to shoot her it he could not got his own way. He kept three rifles d two revolvers in the house, and they were always loaded. _ On this occasion, he used abominable language to her. and' threatened, her to sucli an extent that die screamed for her father, who lived nearby. The latter rushed an, and felled the respondent with a piece of Ivon just !l3 he was reaching for ja revolver. took proceedings against her husband in the lower count.

A decree nisi was granted, to bo mad© absolute in three months.