INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10289, 21 February 1895, Page 4

INTERCOLONIAL.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE.

Sydney, February 20.

In the divorce suit brought by his wife against the Roy. Mr Clark on the ground of cruelty, it was alleged that the husband hypnotized the plaintiff and brutally asBaulted hot on several occasions, and that her body was cut and scarred. He tore off her clothes, and drove her outside in a nude condition. Under cross-examination Mrs Clark admitted having snpernatural visitations, and said Bhe flaw spirits at various times. A LIGHT SENTENCE. Mrs Gray was sentenced to six mouths for killing a girl named Turner by throwing a table knife at her. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. Admiral Bridge leaves Hobart with the Orlando within a few days for Auckland, where tha flagship will be joined by the Katoomba, the Royalist, the Bingdove, and the Karrakatta. After a series of squadron movements have been carriei out in the Hauraki Gulf the admiral will make an official landing at Auckland, and will after-1 wards visit Wellington and some of the pouthern ports. The Katoomba and the Karrakatta replace tho Eoyalist and tho Bingdove in New Zealand waters. STATE SCHOOL BOOKS. Melbourne, February 20. A deputation from the Typographical and Bookbinders' Association asked the Minister for Education to have State school books compiled and printed in the colony. The Minister Raid he sympathised with the depntation, and would endeavour^o arrange an intercolonial conference for the purpose of drafting a series a books. A CUEIOUS CASE. A curious case, in which a girl named Atkins, tbe victim of a vitriol-throwing outrage at Ascot Vale, figures prominently, is at present befora the conrt. The plaintiff brought a civil action against the girl's father, and the latter produced a letter written by the plaintiff in which he asked the girl Atkins to come and live with him, the plaintiff's wife acqnicßOing in the arrangement on condition that, she received certain property. The plaintiff also signed an agreement to maintain the girl as long as she liked to live with him. PERSONAL. Hobaet, February 20.

Governor Duffs condition last night was less favourable. The congestion of the lungs has been accsntuated by an attack of. jaundice, and bis strength is failing.