IN DIVORCE

Southland Times, Issue 19256, 21 June 1921, Page 2

IN DIVORCE

A WELLINGTON CASE. (Per United Prees Association). WELLINGTON, June Ifl ’ Another story of an unhappy mam age was sold at the Supreme Court to-day when James Furniss sought to obtain the dissolution of his marriage with Agnes Furniss on the ground of her misconduct with John Barclay, architect’s works overseer, whose disappearance from Wellington a couple of years ago caused a sensation. The petitioner stated he married an English nurse while undergoing hospital treatment at Sheffield in 1916. He was transferred to another hospital within a few hours of his marriage. Some months later lie 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 down the main trunk line. She refused to accompany him to his home some miles out from Huntly and came to Wellington. For a time she was a boarder with Barclay, but dissappeared, as did Barclay. Later it w r a« ascertained that respondent and co-respondent were living in Christchurch as man and wife,. A decree nisi was granted with costs.