IN DIVORCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

IN DIVORCE.

ANDKjEWg V. ANDREWS

(From "The Colonist," J ime 21.) Agnes Aadrcws, ox Motueka. peti■J} edJ?,r a dissolution of her marna»o with William Andres, of AVpllington, on the grounds of habitual drunkenness and cruelty The Hon. A. T. Maeinnity appeared for the petitioner Tho snit was undefended. The petitioner, in evidence, stated ™ she wa® married on March 13th, iyu<, and thero was one child liviii" About two]ve months after their marriage her husband started drinking to excess. tfhe left him about sixteen months ago and she had had no lielt> from him dujing that period. Barbara Forbes, of Wellington, gave evidence as to the respondent's drunken habits. She «aid Jig had not been sober during tho past four or five years. A decnee- nisi was granted, to bemade ;absoluto in three months, with costs against respondent, petitioner icy have interim custod; y of the child.