NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3155, 14 May 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr J. Macfie’s funeral in Dunedin on Saturday was largely attended. The Juvenile Opera Troupe have had a most successful season at Oamaru.

Lady Jervois gave a ball at Government House, Auckland, on Saturday night The ship Waipa from London with immigrants for Canterbury, has been spoken in 15 degrees sonth latitude on March 19.

A baker named Bamford, belonging to Canterbury was drowned on Saturday at Coromandel, through being capsized from a punt.

Henry Robertson, charged at Auckland with wife-desertion was discharged by the bench on Saturday, his wife declining to prosecute. Mr L. D. Nathan, of Auckland, who recently travelled in Egypt,purchased there a number of curios and has presented them to the Auckland Museum.

The body of Allison, a missing bushman, has been found at the bottom of a cliff near Mechanics’ Bay, Auckland. He had evidently fallen into the harbor and it was known that he had been drinking very heavily. , The Borough Council will meet this evening at 7 o’lcck. The police are submitting samples of public-house liquor in Auckland to the Provincial Analyst to be tested. Mr Nicoll of North Shore, Auckland, has been commissioned to build a schooner for the Tongan Government, at a cost o* £IOOO.

Sergeant Major Hyde, Regimental Sergeant Major of the New Zealand Artillery, has arrived in Timaru, for the purpose of giving a course of instruction in gunnery to the local battery. Instruction will be given every evening this week.

Government have declined to take any responsibility in connection with the representation of New Zealand at the Boston Exhibition.

An object attracting some attention on the railway platform on Saturday was a cage containing about 25 ferrets‘ awaiting transportation to a farmer at Albury. Woe to the rabbits I Another divorce case is mentioned in Wellington. The petitioner is Bichard Miller Blwell, who seeks a dissolution on the sjropnd of adultery, Tbe document filed sets forsh that the petitioner is a commercial traveller, and on the 18th of October 1879, was legally married to Miriam Nellie Violet Alexander, described as a widow, at the parish church of St, James, Townsville, in the colony of Queensland, and cohabited with her for some fime; no issue, however, resulting from the union. The petitioner thpn alleges that on the 29th of March of the following year, his wife left his house in Townsville without just cause and against his express wish, and was not seen by him. until tbe 29tb of last month, on which day he arrived in Welling from Queensland lor the purpose of seeking her. Enquiries, the petition proceeds to state, were made respecting the respondent, and it was ascertained that during the rqontjhg of February, March and April, 1882, and April, 1883, she had been living in adultery with Solomon Phillips, pawnbroker of this oity, by whom she has had one child, now aged four months. On these grounds, therefore, the petitioner prays for a divorce from the respondent. The case is expected to come on for hearing at the next sitting of the Supreme Court.