SUPREME COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14685, 19 November 1909, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

. IN MVOKCE Tiii-hsuav, November 18. (Before liis Honor Mr J«>"c« Williams.) CtOtLl. V. CADHLL. I'etilior by JialxM barai- Cadoll for a dissolution oi her wuli U'juicnc Lionel Cuclcrll, iormeny 01 bjuuey, raiicliur, aftvi'warilj jl Uiari, Lniileruury, on olic' s 1 ' 01 "" 1 ol " ,,a ' omlllcl wlUl Ul '« Stella liin-ioilo, ot Sydney, operant; artist. 'liitiW was no apiwuiutlte on bslmif ol ru--6|iolUWllt. Mr niuiloii, who appeared for petitioner, jalu cliat tiiu parties were married at litisliaiio on tne Bui 01 August, IUUI, anil alter llieir iiwrriaau they lived there ami ai

bj-Uuey. Xiici' -hey decided lo coino to i\ew /joalauu, where the husband intended W take up -hoop-tarming. They came to Wellington, whero the only child was born, and after staying there lor eight months the husuaiid took up a tarm ut Urari, and Ins wile and child lived witu him there. They were there lor two and u-halt years, when the husband went to Cmuitciiurch, saying that ho was going U> sell a motor cur. Ue wrote one or two letters troiii there, and then tlie correspondence ceased, and tna wife next heard that he hud become miatuated with a woman in an opera company, and was tollowing her up and down lire Dominion. The who believed that ho wont lo Australia for s trip, In Hie iiieaiitinie she felt the farm and came to Uunedin to reside. Wlwn the husband found that she had lelt the (arm, which she- wonted for tome tune alter he left, he came to Duuedin lo see her, but only loi the pur|K»e of asking licr lor money. She refused lo give him any, and shortly afterwards found that, lie hud l:ceii guilty ol improprieties with anoihe. woman, also a member of an opera company. He had Mjiiandered all Ins money, and when served with the petition admitted I hut ho had lx»n having a good lime, .nd <aid that Mrs Cadell could get her divorcj. lie wrote to dier Baying that ho was in lovo with another woman, lie admitted all she (tho wife) said jgamst linn, and begged her ca keep a certain lady's name out of it if possible. The petitoner (-aid that they lived amicably together until February, 1907, when her husband wen* to Christclnircli. He wrote her two frendly letters from there, but never returned to her. She carried on the farm until March of this year, when fche put eomcono on the farm and came lo Uunedin. She heard that the respondent had met a woman in an opera company in Christchurch, and had followed her about Kcwi Zealand. He came to £eo witness in Uunedin, and asked hsr for money, which she refused io givo him. ■She next heard that he wa s staying in a hotel in Uunedin with Stella Oastelle. When the woman went away her husband went to livo m another hotel. She did not know where ho was now. Further evidence was given by Catherine Ilonie, hotel clerk; Lena Gloag. housemaid; and Howard S|wncer Bannister law cierk. A decree nisi was granted, to take effect lifter three months, Mrs Cadell to have the custody of the child; costs against respondent on the ■ lowest scale, with (lisbtirssmente.