SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume X, Issue 2626, 18 May 1877, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(PER PBESS AGENCr.) We'lhngion, Thursday. The sitting of the Court of Appeal has been suspended for the present without having decided any case, in order to take a number of cases set down for hearing in the Divorce Court. A meeting of the creditors of O'Shea was held this afternoon; liabilities, £29,000; deficiencies, £18,000. It is proposed to divide four-and-sixpence. The accounts showed a profit of £1,100 iu 1875, and a loss in 1876 of £7,000. A Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Court was opened to-day. Dr. Buller moved for a decree absolute in the case of Grace v. Grace and Te Nghoa, of tho Thames, but the case was postponed in consequence of an affidavit not having been filed in the' Auckland Supreme Court. Mr Travers moved for a hearing and a decree nisi in tho case of Lloyd v. Lloyd. It appeared from the setting out of the case on behalf of the petitioner, that the parties were married in Auckland, but did not live happily together, and the petitioner left her husband on account of his constant unkindncßS, and refused to live with him afterwards, though he endeavoured to got her to do so. He afterwards went to California, and got married, and evidence was put in to show that the respondent was the same Trevor Lloyd who had been the husband of the petitioner. After going ovor the grounds of argument, a decreo was granted in the usual form. Tubakina, Thursday. , The_ opening of the Wanganui and Turakina line was a great success. The weather was beautiful. A train of nine carriages' and four trucks left, crowded with passengers. No less than 600 people were taken from Wanganui. The event was celebrated by a luncheon. Westport, Thursday. A very brilliant meteor was seen here shortly after sis p.m. yesterday, vanishing like showers of falling stars. Dune din, Thursday. At the Police Court this morning two clerks of lioad Boards were fined in a nominal penalty for not forwarding to tho Tuirei Eegistration Ufficer a list of ratepayers for tho year ending March 31st. Bluff, Thursday. The 'Tararua' left Sandridge on the 9th, at 4 a.m.; passed the heads at 7 p.m., and Cape Piller at. 2 30 p.m. on the 11th; arrived at Hobart Town at 7 p.m.; left on the 12th at 3 p.m., and experienced light head winds throughout the passage. She made the Solanders at G p.m. on the 16th, arriving at the Bluff at daylight this morning. Saloon passengers for Auckland: Messrs Figg and Borthwick.