SIMMONDS SEPARATED.

NZ Truth, Issue 380, 5 October 1912, Page 6

SIMMONDS SEPARATED.

Nuptial Knot Unhitched m Record

Time.

Even the slow-g-oing holy city sets up a few records at tunes, and the way a divorce case was pushed through last Monday before Sir Joshua Williams m the Supreme Court was the subject of considerable . coniiment m the lobbies and elsewhere. » - Alfred William Simmonds, represented by Lawyer A. C. Hanloh,' sought, to be connubially disconnected from his missus, Ethel Maud, who is at present m Invercargill, on the

Once a teacher, always a teacher will be, ; May well be written of "Gee Em Tee." On the floor of the House now lectures the boys; A fatherly duty which Tommy enjoys.

grounds of desertion. Missus Ethel Maud did not appear. Alfred deposed to the effect thabhe was spliced m Dunedin to Ethel Maud on January 24, 1900. yrheir union had been blessed with offsprings of two. He had the elder, and she had the younger. They lived m the. holy burg for, two •years, when he went hotel-keeping at Kurow, where they were for ToUr •years. ' He then started business as an outfitter at Tuiiiaru,' but after eight, . months the business was not very successful and he s oid out. He wanted her then to come back to the holy burg, but 'she refused t and departed with the younger child for Christchurch, whilst he went to Dunedin to his brother's place, taking the older child with ' him. He heard afterwards that his missus had returned to Timaru and started tea rooms. When he found this out he wrote to her, and asked her to . return to the connubial roof, but she did not answer. He had never seen her since he left Timaru on July 25, 1907. „ Charles Henry Sinunoivds, brother of the previous witness, gave evidence as to Alfred William having stayed with him from about the end of July, 1907, and that, So far as he knew, Alfred William had had no communication with Ethel Maud since that date. Decree nisi was granted. Tho whole proceedings barely lasted ten minutes.