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Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 22

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LONDON LETTER.

(Feom Our Own Correspondent.) London, December 16. MINING COMPANIES. The prospectus has been issued oE the New Zealand Gold Extraction Company (Limited). The capital is £100,000 in 100,000 £1 shares. T.he directors are Mr Frederick Thorn, Mr Henry Barrett, Mr P. Comiskey (of Auckland), Mr A. J. Newton, and Mr William Johnstone Bteele (of the National Bank of New Zealand). The company has been formed to acquire stud work in the colony of New Zealand an exclusive license for the Newbery-Vautin Gold Extraction Company's patents. The capital asked for is regarded very large, considering that the company is only secondary to the Newbery-Vautin Company just floated. MARRIED IN HASTE— REPENT AT LEISURE. • This truism was exemplified in the case of thi daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper, who five yews ago made a runaway match with Mr Hugh Arundell Trevanion, son of Lady Frances Trevaniou, and last Saturday obtained a decree against him in the Divorce Court. The case is exceptionally interesting because all the elements of the orthodox novel are present. The marriage was an affair of love at first sight, followed by a hasty elopement, a hurried wedding of which the bride's parents were informed an hour after it had taken place. They then tried to make the best of it. The bride's fortune was settled upon herself— an act which seemed to enrage the husband, for after the glamour of the honeymoon had passed off he commenced to ill-use his wife. He was very much given to drink. He boat his wife, kicked her, blacked her eyes, and in fact bruised her all over the body. In April 1885 he made the acquaintance of a young woman named Savage, by whom ho subsequently had a child. He corresponded with this woman, and one evening Mrs Trevanion found a number of letters fioni her in bis pocket. She confronted her husband with them, and he went into a passion and declared the whole affair to be a' pack of lies. Mrs Trevaniou thereupon gave up the letters, but subsequently Sir Daniel Cooper paid £200 to get them back. In October of the present year Mr Trevanion assaulted her with such violence tbaf she summoned him before the magistrate* at Teignmouth, by whom he was convicted and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. After that she left his house and went to live with her parents. All '

the details of the caso were fully proved; and Sir James Hannen pronounced a decree nisi, with costs, the wife to have the custody of the children.' The Pall Mall Gazette very pertinently asks whether, after having committed these offences, Mr Trevanion is to be allowed to remain a member of the bar and of two or three of the London clubs. The answer to this question will, however, hang very much on the result of his appeal against the decision of the Teignmouth magistrates. If the sentence upon him is affirmed and he undergoes imprisonment with hard labour, he will surely be disbarred and expelled the clubs.