"TOO FOND OF HER.”

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1926, Page 9

"TOO FOND OF HER.”

ADMIRAL'S CONFESSION. HIGH LIFE DIVORCE. London, August 5. Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt was the corespondent in Sir Richard Cruise s successful divorce suit to-day. Sir Richard, who is the King’s oculist, gave evidence that Sir Guy Gaunt knew ids wife before their marriage in IQI3. His wife went to Kenya in 1924, and Sir Guy was visiting there at the same time. Petitioner had no suspicion of the relations between the two, but in March 11125, Sir Guy Gaunt told him (Sir Richard) that he was becoming too fond of II),? wife and would go abroad. When petitioner returned home after the weekend his wife had gone. Subsequently his wife wrote from British Columbia, where she was with Sir Guy Gaunt. SIR GUY’S LOSS OF MEMORY. Sir Guy Gaunt was the subject of some comment last year owing, to his prolonged absence from the House of Commons. Later he resigned his seat. It was stated at that time that he was suffering from loss of memory. He made an extended tour of the East, also visiting Sydney in May and visited British Columbia on a yachting cruise in March. An Australian by birth, eon of the late Judge Gaunt, of Melbourne, Sir Guv has had an adventurous career. At Jutland lie led the Fifth Division of the Grand Fleet in the Colossus.