HUSBAND OF A WEEK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15563, 21 March 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

HUSBAND OF A WEEK.

DESERTED BY HIS WIFE. Eicwr days a husband, in Australia, a breakdown of health in England, and then information that his wife, Hannah Violet Grace Dwerrybouse, had lived with a Major Rawdon Ciavering Campbell, was the experience related in the Divorce Court recently by Edward Percy Dwerryhouse. who sought a (divorce on the KroUiJs of his wife's alleged misconduct. In the same court Airs. Jane Florence Campbell asked for a restitution of conjugal rightg against her husband, the Major Campbell referred to. Mr. DwerryIhouse said he and bis wife were married at North Sydney. Eight days later he* 'had to join the ship, of which he was (purser, and left his bride behind with tier parents. On Ids arrival in England ihis health broke down, and he had to relinquish his position. He continued to writ* to respondent, and in May, 1913, received a letter from her written in London, in which she mentioned that she had come to England and uad " got a travelling billet." He wrote and offered her a home in his mother's house. The correspondence continued for a time, arid then respondent suddenly ceased to write. Petitioner wrote'again two or three times, (but received no reply, and ultimately it •was discovered that respondent had returned from Australia with Major Camp'bell, and *hat they had lived together at the Palace Hotel, Southend, in November, 1913, under the names of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman. After the petition had been filed co-respondent's «olicitors informed petitioner's solicitors that Coleman was not his real name, and that he was in iw-t Major Rawdon Clavering Campbell. The president pronounced a decree nisi, with costs, against co-respondent Mrs. Campbell's petition for restitution was undefended. It was stated that the parties were married in 1906- There had Wn no issue of the marriage. Until 1911 petitioner lived happily with respondent, who was a major (retired) in the 4)h 'Highland Light Infantry. However, relations between them became so strained that respondent went to Australia. They came together again, but respondent again lelt home and wrote to petitioner telling her he intended to live his own life and that she might live hers, and that he had giren instructions for the bouse to be shut up. A decree of restitution of conjugal rights .was granted.