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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1640, 5 August 1903, Page 17

A decree was granted (says tho “'Glasgow livening News”) by Lord liincairney in Edinburgh (last month) in the divorce suit between Lilias Reid Filshill and Jolm Filsbill. said to bo in New Zealand. Petitioner said that tho marriage took place in 1597, and the parties lived in Glasgow. In the following year ho got a New Zealand appointment. and it was arranged that she was to follow him to tho colony. He sent her letters from time to time, and a paper with pictures of tho wreck of his steamer. Subseonent.lv she learned that he had a good situation ashore. His last letter was dated from Invercargill about Xmas. 189$. S-ho had never received any money from her husband, and had bad to maintain herself by nursing. There was one child. In answer to an advertisement a reply had been received from a lady in Sydney, who asked whether Filsbill was a married man, and stating that she had been married to him, and that he had left her. Filsbill is "well known in New Zealand, having come out from Glasgow' as chief engineer of the Mapourika. He retained that position for some time after the vessel had been put into commission. The pictures sent to Mrs "~' : !shill -would be those of the Mapourika when she was thrown on to the beach when attempting to ent-er the Grey River a few years ago. He is not now in the service of the Union Company. Australians files to hand contain news of the death of Mr T. R. Firth, late Engineer-in-Chief of Existing Lines in New South Wales. Mr Fnth was 71 years of age#