MARRIAGE THE SEVERED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17889, 17 September 1921, Page 9

MARRIAGE THE SEVERED.

HUSBAND , DECEIVED.

A divorce was granted *,y Mr. Justice AdW~s in the Supreme Court yesterday to Henry tfofca Evetts, of WaCio* (Mr. Hall Skelton), who sought * dissolution of his marriage with Mary livt-.tU. on the ground of misconduct, which wsjt &''eged to have taken place during pstifcjner's absence from New Zealand wjil the* .Expeditionary Force- The petition w<» ended. In, his written stateice;:'- petitioner said he was married in 191!, ind dived with respondent afterwaj-oa at Inglewood, Stratford, a.nd Gisborne. There had been two children by the marriage, one of whom had died. The other was nine years old. Examined by Mi Skelton, petitioner said that on his return from overseas he met respondent, who had a child in her arms. He asked her about the child, and she replied that its mother had died during the influenza epidemic, and, taking a fancy ip the baby, respondent had adopted it. Petitioner asked her for tee adoption papers, but respondent said she had lost them on the wharf that morning, together with her purse. In September, 1919, he instituted inquiries following on something he had heard. He told respondent that the child had a resemblance to her. He then discovered the child had been registered as illegitimate by her, and he secured a copy of the birth certificate. He taxed her with it, and she admitted the facts, refusing to supply the name of the father, on the ground that he was dead, mid that it would do petitioner no good to know. Upon the production of the Onehunza birth register in Court, His Honor made an order for a decree nisi.

COUPLE PAIL TO AGKEE.

PARTING AFTER QUARRELS.

4. decree for the restitution of conjugal ;■;,.'..«, was made by Mr. Justice Adams in the Supreme Court yesterday against Jane Swabey Trask on the petition of Sydney William Trask, labourer (Mr. Hall Sktlton). Petitioner* stated that the parties were married in 1910, and had liv.nl together at Taihape, Hamilton, and A child was born in 1912. Since the marriage they hud frequently quarrel-, led, ,-rvd he thought they had made a mistake in judging their temperaments. In 1918 petitioner went into camp. Marital relations were resumed on his return, but respondent's nature was cold, and they subsequently parted.