SUPREME COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16895, 21 November 1922, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS. ■ I I The civ,! sitting,, or tor -tp,™,,- ! Court were opened bedhi- Honor .'Jr [ Justice Adams to-day. IN DTVORCK. | ( haries William .vtann, l’T.ri'Jtchureh. j driver, petitioned iov divorce ironi ' Mary Annie -Uai.u on t-he ground ol \ adultery, miming Feter Dyer. Oiristchurch, tally-cierii, a - eo-respondent. " The po.ri.ios wva married in oydouJ ham on December 27. i-J I■> I hey j lived together in C'irisLchurch and ■ hawaixieu. There were no children by j the marriage, but the parties are legal | guardians of ft young girl adopted by idem, ami petitioner usked that she i should be placed in his custody. tie j claimed £50.1 damages from corespondent. Air V. D. Sargent appearifo for petitioner. Neither respondent \ noi co-respondent was represented and no defence was filed. The case was hard before the Judge and a common jury ol twelve. Mr Sargent said, that the parties lived happily together until September last, wheu they admitted Dyer to their house as a boarder. He seemed to have entwined himself around Mrs Mai nr* affections, and on October 6 petitioner. t> hi* great surprise, received letters stating that his wife and Dyer had gene away together. Petitioner said that his savings «*nd j Hi* bankbook, which was in his vifin's • name, were taken, leaving him without anything. 1 Mrs Bertha Norgate. Eaton Place, Christchurch, said that respondent went to her place and engaged a room. Respondent said that she was Mrs Dyer, that her name was Rita and her husband’s name was Peter, and that witness could think of the trottins horse Rota-Peter. She added that witness would like Peter, and that they hn.t been married at the registry office three weeks previously. They occupied the same room. , The jury, after retiring for about three-quarters of an hour, returned a, verdict tor petitioner, and awarded 1 him £SOO damages against 00-eapond- j ent. His Ffonor made a decree ni-d to j be made absolute at the end of three j months, and allowed £25 costs of dis- I bursements and witnesses’ oxooiispc j Petitioner ivas given rnstodv *„f 7lie ' child. | OLALM ON DECEASED ESTATE The will of Mrs Sarah Jane Han- ! ! well * wbo (| ied on April, 20, 1919. I leaves her husband £2 a week, as the I • first trust, and the remainder to the j ; two sons and two daughters in equ ii ! j shares. As the estate is more than I sufficient to support, the annuitv, j j those interested in the remainder ap- 1 ( plied tqj the Supreme Court lor >\ ' \ partial distribution. A judgment by his Honor Mr J u ~. vice Chapman stated that, it was clear j that the distribution would be of great ! advantage to the remaining bene- i \ ficiaries and that in the present cm- ! i cuinstances it could be effected with- j out visibly endangering the interests i |of the annuitant. The affidavit-: | j showed that £9OO or £BOO oould he i paid to each of the beneficiaries with- ! out risk, but his Honor was not satis- * fied to regard the present state of j j affairs as permanent. He thought ■ j that the proper sum to pav out was \ £BOO to each of the three, but he I j oidered that, a clause should be added i to protect the annuity. ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. } DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. ! An inquest was held yesterday affcer- ] r.oon by the coroner (Mr H. V. Widi dew son) concerning the death of Peter I Rue at Holmes’s boardinghouse ou Sat- \ urday evening. Evidence was given iby a mate of deceased. Robert | M*Naught, who said that ILie was j playing a friendly game of euchre. Sud- ■ derily he fell sideways on to the per- ! sou who was sitting next to him. Medical evidence, given by two hospital doctors, who had conducted the post mortem examination, was to the effect that deceased*s heart was in a diseased slate. A verdict of death due to heart failure tv os returned. BODY .IDENTIFIED. ' PfK. Pit K.SS AbSOC'7ATT* - •*.; , AUCKLAND. November 21. The body which was found in the j harbour yesterday has been identified ;as t-nat ol Robert Begg. a widower. «ho lately has been residing in lodg- | ings in Auckland. DEATH FROM POISON (Pkr Prrss Association.; DUNEDIN, November 21. ] y® ars - " Tva ' s discovered on a vacant plot, , of pound near the Art Gallery about ! midnight-, seemingly suffering from | strychnine poison. Ho was a.dinitte<] I to hospital, where, he sucoumbeil [ It. is onderetood that the deceased j belonged to Ohnetchurch. t BODY FOtmT> j AUCKLAND. November 20 j The body of an unknown man was ■ found in tbe harbour. Apparently bo i wan about rixtv years of age. On the body was a weighting ticket, issued bv ;t "Wellington chemist, bearing the name ©f R Reap, written in pencil

Tbe tops of tbe first two fingers erf the right hand are missing. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS’ DEATH. AUCKLAND, November 21 The victim of the accident at Ngaruawahia, where a bicycle was found in the river, is definitely known to be Donald Forrest, whose wife resides in Auckland. He was a commercial traveller. and was visiting Hamilton on