TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 2855, 28 May 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[per press telegraph agency.] DIVORCE COURT. Wellington, May 27. At the Divorce Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, and Justices Johnson, Gillies, and Williams, Woolcock v Woolcock and Waddell. The petitioner, Mr Woolcock, M.H.R., for Grey Valley, sought a divorce from his wife in consequence of misconduct with co-respondent. Mr Travers appeared for petitioner, Woolcock married respondent, then Mary Jane Lovell, at the Presbyterian Church Nelson, in October, 1865, he was then 35 years of age, his wife about 20, they afterwards lived together in Greymoutb, where petitioner was engaged in business. After returning from his Parliamentary duties in 1876, he fonnd co-

respondent, James Waddell, had been engaged, by bis wife to assist in the business. Wooloock suspected that an improper intimacy existed between them, but for sometime qould obtain po positive proof. They lived in a house separate from the store, which was settled upon Mrs Woolcock. She at length refused to admit her hnsband into the house, and he had to take lodgings in town. Soon after this, Waddell was imprisoned for assaulting an old man, and on his release he went to Nelson, Mrs Woolcock following him in the course of a few days, and they lived at an hotel as man and wife, passing under the name of Osborne. Waddell then went down to Dunedin, where he was again re-joined by Mrs Woolcock. After hearing evidence the Court granted rule nisi.