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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 358, 1 October 1889, Page 3

Mr Justice Stirling, in the Qhanaecy Court Division, recently decided the case of Steel v. Ntael, Involving the custody of a little girl four years old, and which also revealed some extraordinary circumstances. Mr Steel, a merchant, trading in the East, and a man of fortune, married his wife in 1881. she alsd being wealthy, and bringing £30,000 into their marriage settlement, A son was born in 1982, and two years later Mrs Steel refused Io live with ter husband any longer, a' 4 after lbs left him a daughter was born. The Mason of separation was “ incompatibility of tamper," and no suggestion of improper conduct was made on either side. Mrs Steel subsequently resided with an aunt tn whom she wgs much attached, and the son remained with the father and the daughter with the mother, In 1880 Mr Justice Kay refused to alter this arrangement, and two years later Mr Steel in the Scotch courts obtained a jivorcs from his wife on the ground that she pad deserted him for four years, Mr Steel new aeslied io: the -« ’ iug ' ntei . t Afters long argument it was decided that tba little girl should visit her father and the son his mother, his lordship (saying that icier on the lather might become entitled to ths oustedy M (fa iaughler.