AN AUCKLAND DIVORCE SUIT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3676, 28 February 1899, Page 7

AN AUCKLAND DIVORCE SUIT.

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pbess ■ Association, __ • „ . ~, Aucjclanp, Monday. , At tlie'rioting 'Of ‘the Siiprem© Court to-day,-,Mr Justice-Conolly,.heard, a .di r vorce case—Hbll'ancT vi Holland.’ ‘ The petitioner, Samueh Thomas Holland, of Waiuku, applied for an order for a decree nisi for the dissolution of marriage with the;pv’respondent,-,-Mary.- ,Holland, , cm the • grounds’pf adultery ; with' one JdRiT Miirrayl alias 1 Sharp; •• > ' There was-Aeojappearanc®; of . .either respondent or co-respondent. ; The petitioner, in-his'evidence, stated that co-resgpndent, a young man of 19 or 20, waMwSMHglifoflhim <fo;iJA ; some time, b.ut left, as., petitioner had no further' work tPdi-dlim. .-Mrs Holland'left at 1 dhs. yameotimeyt and her living - with, the motheivof- po-respon-dent. She promised Ao return hOme tp her husband, butf'did mot do so. During, the time the young man was working for witness, die did hot'observe any impropriety between them. Withess ‘afterwards read a letter from his wife in which.she refused to. saying she was happier where she was. Murray and Mrs Holland .afterwards caine to Auckland, ; where , they wepe Hying as mad and wife. ”:j ■ jl ' District-Constable Parker,, of Waiuktt,., gave- fcoferoborativo‘ evidence. and said petitioner had' always treated his wife kindly. ■ . ■ , , His Honor made an order for a decree nisi, returnable in three months. '