STUDENTS’ ROMANCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144131, 28 June 1913, Page 5

STUDENTS’ ROMANCE.

GARCIA GIRL AND DENTIST. SYDNEY, .June 18. .Mr. Justice Gordon, Judge in Divorce, luid before him this morning u romance between a New Zealand girl who had come to Sydney to study at -Madame Christian’s Garcia School of Music, qnd a young dental, student. Love’s young dream ended two days after the marriage, and this morning the dental student, now a practising dentist, applied for a dissolution of his marriage with his wife, on the ground of desertion.

The parties were married on December 10, 1908, at Sydney. Petitioner was then 22, having been born in Kerang, Victoria, arid the respondent was 21, having been born at Hawera, New Zealand.

,Do gave his name this morning as Carl Howard Irving, and that of his wile as Kathleen Ethel Irving (formerly Major). , Mr'. E. A. Barton (instructed by Mr. Keith B.’ Cohen) appeared for the petitioner.

Petitioner said that when he met the respondent she was a pupil of Madame Christian at the Garcia School of Music. He was a dental student. After tho marriage they lived together for tiro days only. His wife then went to New Zealand. Prior to going she told him that her father would no doubt raise objections to the marriage, because he wanted her to marry a farmer. The day she left for Now Zealand he went to the boat, and their parting, was affectionate, and for some time afterwards, while she was in New Zealand, she sent him affectionate letters, but the endearing terms gradually diminished. His wife had told him that when she got to New Zealand she would not tell her father of the marriage, hut would sec if he would consent. His wife not returning, petitioner went to New Zealand, and there saw her. She then told him thht she never intended to live with him. Before returning to Now South Wales he published the fact of the marriage in the New Zealand papers. Returning to Sydney, he qualified as a dentist, and was now practising as such. Ernest Louis Hignott said that he was a friend of the petitioner, and was also acquainted with the respondent. The respondent had told him that she had married the petitioner while studying music at Madame Christian’s Academy of Music, and that she intended to go to New Zealand and see if her father would consent to the marriaga. If ho would consent she and the petitioner, she said, could again go through the ceremony, and her father would not know of the first ceremony. His Honour said he was satisfied that the respondent had. not lived with the petitioner after the first two days of the marriage, and that she had then gone to New Zealand, and subsequently refused to live with him. Ho granted a decree nisi, and ordered it returnable in six months.