NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7112, 9 July 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT. Auckland, July 9. At the Supreme Court, Henry Graham, for breaking and entering a jeweller's shop, was sentenced to nine nonths ; John Connelsafe, for robbery from Porter & Co.'s, seven years ; Fred Fronae, for the same robbery, five years. DISEASED MEAT. At the City Council it was stated that a cow suffering from cancer was recently slaughtered and sent to a Bbop and sold as human food. The matter is being investigated. BURNED TO DEATH. A three year old son of Henry Taylor, cabinet-maker, Stoneyhurst, was burnt to death yesterday. His clothes caught fire during the temporary absence of his mother. The child died after several hours' agony, SUSPENDED ANIMATION. Wellington, July 9. A young woman named Mary Brougham, housekeeper at the Greytown Hotel, committed suicide by hanging, last night. ESSAYS ON THRIFT. Nearly two hundred essays on thrift have been received by the National Mutual Life Association for their prize of 25 guineas. Major Atkinson has agreed to judge the essays and make the award. It is expected to occupy him a month. CURIOUS MATRIMONIAL CASE. Mr. Beetham, R.M., delivered an important judgment in the case of Farquhar v. [Farquhar, in which a husband was charged by a wife with trespassing in her house and. refusing to leave when requested to do so, contrary to the Polico Offences Act, section G. On June 22ad the husband returned and walked into her house and was told by the wife to leave, but he said he would stay and she left the house. Mr. Beetham said — " A wife has no right to refuse the society of her husband, even to the extent of cohabitation, unless by sanction of the Supreme Court, given after a solemn procedure. My opinion is that a husband can enter a house, which ib a separate property of his wife, to enjoy her society — that is, if he can enter without destroying property." The case was dismissed.