LURE OF THE ALTAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 8

LURE OF THE ALTAR.

DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE.

NEW SOUTH WALES CASES.

ONE COUPLE THRICE UNITED.

[t'ROM Ol'R OWN* CORRESPONDENT.]

SYDNEY. Oct. 8,

Great interest was aroused in Sydney last Week when it was announced that a couplo who had figured a few years ago in what is termed a "society" divorce case, had been quietly remarried, and were living happily together ad over again. Of course, inquiries were at once set on foot, and it was revealed that divorced people, in New South Wales at least, seldom re-marry, though there are manv cases where a divorced woman lias married tho co-respondent. However, there have been some remarkable instances of divorcees who have been brave enough to take a second matrimonial venture. '

Several years ago a woman prominent in society in Sydney became estranged from her husband and divorced him, but when She met him again in London during the Great War, the love ,of former daya revived, and once more, hand in hand, they faced tho altar. Tho second venture was not a success, and only a few months ago she once again invoked the aid of the Divorce Court and secured a decree nisi. Thus they had been twice married and twice divorced.

The record, however, belongs to two members of well-known families of New South Wales. From early youth they were ardent sweethearts, and they were married in the early 20's. They spent several years on a great pastoral estate, and then differences arose that were submitted to the stern arbitration of the Divorce Court. They were divorced, but within five years they were reunited and appeared to bo happy once again. But their destiny was not unalloyed happiness, and before long they were again the principal actors in a drama that was enacted before a Supreme Court Judge. For the second time they were divorced. A few moro years sped by, and for the third Jtime they were remarried. As before, thoy failed to agree, and for the third time they were sundered by order of the Court. In two instances the decree had been pronounced by the same Judge. No word of their remarriage has yet been made public.

Here' is another instance. Before the war, a well-known Sydney solicitor was divorced by his actress wife. Having been struck off the rolls, he went to the United States to start life all over again. His formor wife followed him, and when she located him in Now York, they forgot their differences in Sydney and they romarried. They have not separated since.