AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9095, 13 March 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

■• • : ■— '♦ •■ ■ — — (Bleotrio Telegraph-Copyright- Unitca Press . ;■ • , •-.. Association.) SYDNEY, March 12. At a dispersal of local stud cattle by auction, the first day was .devoted to Hereford*. Prices were gdodl *' Mr James Stuckey, of New Zealand, secured four cows and heifers at -prices ranging from 21 ; to 90 guineas. • The Ooningham divorce case was continued to-day. The j cross-examination of Ooningham by Mr Want lasted for a great , part of the day. At the conclusion of the examination, in reply to Mr Want's statement, that he would show to the judge and jury that this-" was a conspiracy, petitioner s»id . thiat- the letters alleged to have passed between him and respondent since the last trial, and which had been put in- as evidence, were forgeries. He ' would, . jhe said, prove forgery, perjury, seduction and very nearly murder. The petitioner called the respondent, whose examination was not finished when the Court adjourned. ■"" SYDNEY, March 13. An influential meeting of citizens decided to form jw association to agitate for a reduction of members of the State Assembly. ■■■-■■ ' : v ■ The barque Ville !Du Havre has arrived in tow of the steamer St. -Louis from New Caledonia. • .-" The s.s. Gulf -of Taranto Bails for New Zealand on the 26th to ship troops.