DIVORCES GRANTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16078, 18 November 1915, Page 5

DIVORCES GRANTED.

WIFE WHO RAN AWAY. I AX UNHAPPY HONEYMOON, i Three applications for divorce were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday by His Honor Mr. Justice Hosking. ' Dissolution of his marriage with Alice ! Webster was sought by William Edward Webster, of Parnell, on the ground that ' she had deserted him. Petitioner was j represented by Mr. B. F. Wyman. j Petitioner said his wife left him * month after they were married, in Novem- 1 ber, 1908. During their honeymoon tour j her manner had been very peculiar. She j seemed to be grieving over her mother's j death, and he thought she was losing ' affection for him. When they returned to Auckland, she lived for a time with her sister, absolutely declined to live with I him, and later took employment in a j shop under her maiden name- He saw' her again later, but she said she could; not live with a man she did not love. ' Still later, in 1910, he discussed matters with her. and she agreed to live with: him at Kingsland. They were housekeep- ' ing for only three weeks, and then his wife ran away, leaving a note to sav that she could not continue to live with . him. He did not hear from her for a 1 considerable time, but then he learned of her whereabouts, and was told that she had been seen in the company of j j a man. He complained of this, and" she ! wrote him an abusive letter. j Corroborative evidence was given, and' His Honor granted a decree nisi, to be I made absolute, m three months. J !