DIVORCE PETITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 9

DIVORCE PETITION.

QUESTION OF DOMICILE. COURT FAVOURS WIFE. Received December 8, 10.50 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 7. The court decided in favour of Lady Cheylesmore that the husband was domiciled in England.—A. and N.Z. cable. A cable message published on December 1 stated : Lady Cheylesmore. formerly Miss Nora Parker, an Australian," is petitioning for a divorce from her husband whom 6he married in 1914 when a chorus girl almost fresh from Tasmania. The purpose of the present action is to establish tho domicile of the parlies, as the husband filed a petition for divorce in Canada, while the wife filed her petition in London, declaring her husband’s domicile to bo British. After tho war Lord Cheylesmore purchased a ranch in Alberta, saying that it was a man’s country and ho would not return to empty London club life for a king’s ransom. Counsel, however, stated that Lady Cheylesmoro had always understood that the life in Canada was temporary. Tho couplo for a time lived in a ten by 12 foot shack, with no covering on the bedroom floors, and with no washstand and no water laid on. Lord Cheylesmore’s relations with his wife wore strained because she was childless. At her husband’s request she underwent treatment by various doctors but she was unable to bear him a child.