DIVORCE COURT

Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 26

DIVORCE COURT

WELLINGTON, June 18. Another story of an unhappy marriage was told at the Supreme Court, when James Furniss sought to obtain a dissolution of his marriage with Agnes Furniss on the ground of misconduct with John Barclay, architect’s works overseer, whose disappearance from WelTugton a couple of years ago caused a sensation. Petitioner stated that he married his wife, an English nurse, while he was undergoing hospital treatment at Sheffield in 1916. He was transferred to another hospital within a few hours of his marriage, and some months later sailed for New Zealand. His wife came out a couple of years later. Petitioner went to Auckland to meet her, but. owing to a mistake in the time of the arrival of the boat, he missed her, though he met her coming down on the Main Trunk line. _ She refused to accompany him to his home, some miles out from Ifuntly, bid came to Wellington. where for a time she was a boarder with Barclay, but disappeared, as did Barclay. It was later ascertained that the respondent and co-respondent were living at Christchurch ns man and wife. A decree nisi was granted, with costs.