GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
[BY. TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Napiek, Monday. An old colonist, Mre. John MoVay, widow of the founder of the first tannery in Auckland, died yesterday. She arrived with her family in Sydney in 1837, and four years; after came to Auckland in the schooner Shamrock, commanded by Captain Daldy. * The Divorce Court, , today, in the case Joshua v. Joshua, was mainly occupied with the addresses of counsel. The case is likely to end tomorrow.: : A pakeha-Maori named Clarke has been committed for trial on a charge of laying » steel rail across the railway at Waipawa. Wellington, Monday. o The Mararoa, which arrived from Sydney at five o'clock this afternoon, brought 68 saloon and 110 steerage pa«S3ngers for all ports. In addition to an English mail, she brought-a very large number of letters from Australia, apparently the results of drawing of consultations on the Melbourne Cup. T.'" Most of the Wellington, Wanganui, and Napier representatives at the New South Wales Rifle Association meeting returned by the Mai:aro»;toiday*iJ :v%'."jr 3tuU ;-\-j;k In the Divorce Court to-day Judge Richmond granted a decree absolute in the case of Mudgway v. Mudgway, the husband's petition. ...■■:.-;.,•.. ,•■ •.■: ■'■ >'o;\>,>" . The Mariposa with the colonial mails of October Bth arrived at San Francisco on October 27th, contract date.%: ;'j k< f.u*.--u , iU : - :; Timarov Monday, A young lady, Miss Wood, while nursing , a ,baby in a house in Turnbull street, was bib in the hip by a spent bullet, which 1 came in through the window. The Naval volunteers were class-firing at the range, and the bullet'is supposed to bo one fired at a seagull in the direction of the town. The wound is. nob serious. The bullet passed through the baby's clothe*. i Invercargill, Monday. y ■ On arrival of the Manapouri at Bluff today, Mrs. Louis Rodgers, wife of a'; bookseller and stationer, at one time in 5 a large way of business in Invercargill, % was stepping ashore, when she dropped dead, I* la supposed from heart disease.:; She chad been on a. visit to her husband, who ba» been in business at Zeehau. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9024, 1 November 1892, Page 5
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