THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 24 February 1912, Page 6

THE COURTS.

(Per Press Association ) Auckland, February 24. Somewhat unusual circumstances were disclosed in a case brought by Margaret Harrison for .1 separation order, her husband, Chas. Arthur Harrison, being charged with failing to provide maintenance. A previous application had been made m Wellington and was abandoned, according to defendant’s solicitor, because offers had been made towards a settlement. Defendant is the proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Wellington, and, counsel added that this cose might ho abandoned later in view of divorce proceedings. Plaintiff said she had been living on what her husband had given her, and what she had saved, about £ISOO, and there was probably about £SOO remaining. She admitted that in Wellington she stayed at the best lintel, also that she wrote Ik r husband a letter threaten ng to commit bigamy. But that was a joke. The Magistrate said he could not make an order. On the evidence produced complainant was not destitute, nor was he satisfied that she aas not being maintained. If she wished the matter thoroughly* investigated <ho had better go to the Wellington Supreme Court. The case was •lismi-nM without prejudice.