WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 700, 20 May 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Thus Day. In the Divoi*ce Court at Wellington yesterday, decrees absolute for dissolution of marriage were granted m Digby v. Digby, Ohristchurch ; Matthews v. Matthews, Wellington ; Ryley v. Ryley. Dunedin ; George v. George, Wellington ; and Jeffrey v. Jeffrey, Christchurch. Evidence was taken m Henderson v. Henderson and Flynn (co-respon-dent), Auckland ; Harvey v. Harvey and Jones (co-respondent), Wellington ; and Carlson v. Carlson and Key (corespondent), Wellington. Decrees nisi were made m each case. All of them were on husband's petition, on the ground of their wife's adultery. The perjury case against J. G. Kinross, ia set down for hearing m the Wellington Police Court to-day. ■ A trial of a gas making apparatus for I lighting railway carriages, made m a carriage occupied by the Governor m going from the Hutt to Wellington, on Saturday proved most successful. The Post says it is rumored to be now under the consideration of the Cabinet to impose an Income Tax, and extend the present Land Tax by a graduated system, so as to reach large land owners rather than smaller proprietors. The case of Henderson v. Henderson m the Divorce Court yesterday, was au extraordinary one. The petitioner who is a miner at the Thames, had been married to respondent m 1866, when he was a school boy only, between 14 and 15 years of age, the respondent being 21, and servant m his parents house at the Whau. He had seduced the girl, and she informed him she was eneeint, and with aid of her aunt, inveigled him into a marriage m Auckland. The ceremony was per-

formed by the Rev. Wardlow Davies, and all prelimiinariesjtogetthe registrar's license arranged by the bride or her friend. Since the night of his marriage he had never cohabited with his wife, and she had been now living for some years at Tareru, with a man named Flynn, by whom she had two children. Petitioner had not be m a pecuniary position to commence proceedings earlier.