SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13461, 6 December 1907, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. GHRISTCHURCH, Dec, 5. At a divorce sitting to-day ,Mr Rwsell, appeared in isuppott of an application for a dissolution of marriage, ithe ground ol* leged being t.ha failure- of 'the respondent to comply with ah order for the restitution of conjugal rights. His Honour.said iliat foe friws no* seen (the Act of last session:. He supposed rfc has to be submitted for the anaenfc of His Majesty, but the Act? was certainly ■intended to do away with that .sort of tliinij. ' - Mi* Russell said he did not think the Art 'had any retrospective action. :, . His Honour said lie thought' ijiere wa'i a rc?erva,tion io the effect tiinlb the Act should not prejudice any impending proceeding. 'He understood iii&p from a press' report, but if the assumption wa* wrong the. decree would be void, and Mr Russell would have tto'apply to haver it rescinded'". In the meant ipnei |he would take the law as. he found it'at present. In granting the decree His Honour said Ihafc that form of ready-made desertion had attracted the attention. of Parliament., but -until the la. wwas altered the parties were entitled to the advantages of, tho system. ' Tn the Divorce Court-, before Mr Justice Chapman, Knvily Taiti petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Samuel Pullerton Tait on the ground of<de?ertion. The parties were married in July, 1878. at Cliristchurcb. and the petitioner said that his married life hat} -been 1 unliappy, owing ijo a-espondenit's drinking • ibab&s.. He left her in-. January, making no provision for ,her, and no home. A decree ni«,i was granted. Emily Jane Wanton viw granted a decree nisi against, George Winton who had disappeared "height yeats ago, and no trace of him found by t<be> police. A decree nisi was also granted in thi co«es of Lilian Rowlands v. William Rowlands, on the grounds of adnl-> tery and cruelty; Annie Preece v. Charles Hennr Preece, desertion; ' Albent Morey - v. Helen Morey, adultery; George H.' Bint v. Margaret Burt desei'tion ; Anna Marv Charlton' Vi, John Robert Charlton, adultery; Peter Good v. Elizabeth Qood, desertion; Ada Elizabeth'lrvine r. Wil* Ham Irvine, desertion; the decrees nisi Hn cicli case to'be made absolute in three months. -t? , i-r ' * , -■•; ?"' ,