HAMILTON SUPREME COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15554, 11 March 1914, Page 7

HAMILTON SUPREME COURT.

A DIVORCE SOUGHT.

HIS HONOR'S COMMENTS-

[BY TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT,-]

Hamilton, Tuesday. '.'. Lv the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Cooper, Noel George Shakespear -. applied for the annulment of his marriage with Dora Isabel Shakespear, on the grouncTof desertion. The evidence showed . that the parties were married in England in 1890, and came to New Zealand soma . time later. There were two children of • the marriage, both of whom were educated in Auckland. Respondent,, ys6 had' a private income of £7000 or. £,8000, left.' , petitioner on September 22, 1903., fof ,the , purpose of visiting the children 'in Auck- ' land, but she had never returned. .Petitioner stated that respondent was ;£- : wb-. " . man of "very high temper," and "they' had not got on well for years: " He" did not pay anything to the support of '•* the children after respondent left him. • He did not say that respondent was more to blame than himself.

His Honor said the case was an extraordinary one, and it looked like one of mutual consent. The case was adjourned to obtain further evidence as to the parties' married life, about which. His Honor . , said, no one seemed to know. anything, and petitioner had not satisfied the Courti in this respect. .. £500 DAMAGES CLAIMED. The case of Snowden v. the Waitoma County Council, a claim of £500 for daraages caused by alleged negligence, was continued, the plaintiff's case being, to show that the detonators found by the plaintiff, had been negligently left about by the council's employees. This, said defendant's counsel in opening, had not been proved. At most, the case was only one in which suspicion was attached to some employee of the council. '•■■ The case is proceeding. '.:.•■•