IN THE COURTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10604, 5 November 1910, Page 1

IN THE COURTS.

(Per 'Press Association.) Wellington, November 4. A judgment was given by Judge Cooper to-day-on the motion of-the So-licitor-General, on a decre nisi "granted on 19th, March, 1910, at Gisborne, m the divorce case Jobson v. Jobs,on, -to dismiss the petition to have tfic decree made absolute. It appears That since the granting of the decco nisi the parties. William Jobson (the petitioner) and TCciith Lilian Jobson .(respondent) have lived together as man and wife sit .Wangauui and"""Wellington. The riminds of the Solicitor-General s mo-, tion were that petitioner had condoned respondent's misconduct and that the Court had not had the material facts before it at the time. The Court rescinded the decree nisi and, as -a matter of course, dismissed the petition for a decree absolute, which was desired I>\ both parties. Jnd&c Cooper said it was the nrst case in New Zealand in which the At-torney-General or Solicitor-General had intervened' in a divorce suit. . ' Ashburton, November -1. At the' Police Court to-day James Stewart, a laborer, of Mothven, was fined the maximum penalty of £lO and 'costs for supplying liquor to .a prohibited person. - ;