GRANT'S GREAT GAME.

NZ Truth, Issue 507, 6 March 1915, Page 9

GRANT'S GREAT GAME.

Mabel's Misconduct m the Manuka. Sydney Gnrdiner jml iv for a divorce from his wife Mabel, of the same monnicker, a cove named Louis Henderson Grant being ticketed as co-re. Neither the co-re. nor Mabel answered to the roll-call. Syd reckoned he married Mabel In 1905 and, after the oeermony tho pair lived at Burwnod and I 'a pa nit i and finally dug themselves m at Okaln's Hay. The marriage yielded one child and they ndopted another. In Sentember, 19 M. eo-io Grant's wife was expecting a little Grant and Syd granted Mabel permission to be useful to the delighted pair. A couple of months later, Syd spotted Mabel taking the cows through a manuka scrub to the paddock. Nothing extraordinary m that, of course. But later iv the day Syd's eagle eye sighted a woman's footprints and horse-shoo marks, leading into Jt batch of manuka, right out of tho ordinary track. Three days later he again saw marks of a similar nature, and nt their terminus there were marks where somebody had evidently been sitting on the ground. Another throo days later,, Syd saw horse-shoe marks on his property, lie asked his

wife who had called and she said "Mr. Grant." Sydney then snorted. He asked Mabel if she didn't think she had enough of Grant's company m the manuka, without bringing him into the house. He then accused her of misconduct, but she would neither admit nor deny the accusation. Her only reply, was that she had been "forced." Syd then decided to boot Mabel out of the place, bu ty on second thoughts he let her stay a month ahef gave her to understand that they . were no longer man and wife. At the tail end of that month Grant came to the house and asked Syd if he wanted 'to' see him, but Syd replied that the less, they saw of one another, the better he ; would like it. A bit of an argumnt followed, Syd telling Grant what he thought of him and finally, calling Mabel, who,, m the presence of Grant, admitted misconduct with him. The next month Mabel received a letter from Grant and Syd at once gave her a few pounds and her walking ticket. She went to Grant's house artd stayed there for some weeks. Tom Sleeman, boardlnghouse keeper, gave evidence that on November^ 7 Grant and a woman called Mrs. "Grant stayed at his house. ' A decree nisi was granted, with,cuslody of the children and costs against the co-re. «