SOCIETY DIVORCE SUITS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2402, 18 January 1909, Page 5

SOCIETY DIVORCE SUITS.

HEIR TO A PEERAGE CITED AS A CO-RESPONDENT. The pending counter actions for divorce, between Mr. John Alexander Stirling, of Perthshire, late lieutenant in the 3rd. Battalion Scots Guards., and his wife, _ Mrs. Clara Elizabeth Taylor, or Stirling, formerly an actress in the musical comedy “The Earl and the Girl,” came on before the Court of Session, Endiburgh, on November 26, to settle the question of the order in which the petitions should be heard. The hearing was recently listed to began on January 19, a week being set apart. Counsel for Mr. Stirling incidentally mentioned that his client had placet! on the record that on August 30 Airs. Stirling unexpectedly called on him and confessed that she had been guilty of misconduct with Viscount Northland (eldest son of Earl of Ranfurly, and who was formerly a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards). She asked Air. Stirling_ to postpone legal proceedings pending certain financial arrangements, in which Lord Northland was interested, iji connection with the Irish Land Purchase Act, £-as these arrangements would lie stopped if the action were brought at once. From further statements made during tlie arguments it appeared that Air. Stirling lias been carrying on business in London as a stockbroker. Mrs. Stirling .lie said, had contracted debts with dressmakers both in England and Paris, and accounts amounting £I9OO had been sent to him which he had to meet. She had been receiving from him an allowance of £l 2 10s a week,, which he suggested should now be reduced to five guineas. His Lordship allowed Airs. Stirling £75 and expenses in the action brought by her, and £25 in her husband’s counter-action, and aliment at the rate of £SOO per' annum.