TUESDAY'S MEETING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7573, 27 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

TUESDAY'S MEETING.

The meeting of last Tuesday, at which Sir Julius Vogel delivered his mind to the public of Auckland, was the great event of the first part Of the week, as the address of Sir George Grey was of-/the latter part. The most famous artists have striven to hand down to posterity the scenes in which great orators have endeavoured to move or persuade their hearers. . We have seen the picture of Demosthenes haranguing the Greeks, and launching his eloquence against the conquering Macedonian; of Paul preaching at Athena, and expressing the great thoughts within him to those people who were thirsting after some new thing; of Peter the Hermit preaching the Crusades—and so on. We have been told that "Action, action, action," are first, second, and third, to an orator. Here we have a modern statesman sitting in a chair, without a spark of anything like enthusiasm, his topic being, "Borrow money J"

We all regret the affliction which confines Sir Julius to a chair, but the audience did not lose much in the way of graces of oratory, for of these he never had any. His topics are all of the somewhat sordid order. Next we have an energetic local brewer, who made the mistake of attempting to say movo than a few words : —

A BRIDEGROOM LEAVES HIS BRIDE. At Worship street Police Court on January 6, a very respectably-dressed lady, about 26 years of age, who was accompanied by a well-dressed lady, appeared before Mr. Hannay, and made an application for advice. She said that at Christmas last she was married to a gentleman at a church in the district of the court. After the wedding her husband invited her to go to Brighton to spend the honeymoon. They proceeded to Brighton, but within a day or two he suddenly left her, telling her that he had married the wrong woman, and that he never intended to marry her. Mr. Hannay: Did he say he mistook you for somebody else?— Applicant : He said ho never intended to marry me at all, sir. Mr. Hannay : It is very singular. The young lady produced a few letters, which sho said she had received from her husband, who was now in London, and the correspondence was handed to the magistrate, who read some of the letters privately. Mr. Hannay remarked that it appeared to be a queer story, for the gentleman made an allegation in ono of the letters that tho lady had drugged him, and had got him to marry her while ho was in a semiconscious condition. The applicant : Well, but I have been to see the clergyman who married 'us ; and he says he is sure the gentleman was perfectly conscious and clear at the time of the wedding. Mr. Hannay asked the lady what she wished him to do in the matter ; and she replied that she thought she might take a summons against her hflsband for threats contained in tho letters. Mr. Hannay, again referring to the letters, said there seemed to be a sort of threat there, but the writer simply said he would carry out his threat in the event of the lady persisting in making him live with her. It would not justify the granting of a summons. Applicant asked if felie might not compel the gentleman to support her. Mr. Hannay said that the only course by which an order for support could be made was for the lady to throw herself upon the parish, and then the Relieving Officer would take action in the matter. The lady then withdrew.