WELLINGTON NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 3165, 20 May 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

.•-:•■. Wjilmmgton, May 19.

In the Diydfce Conn to-day decrees absolute for dissolution of marriage were granted in Di^by v. Digby, Christchurcb; Mathews v. Mathews, Wellington ; Ryley v. Ryley, Dunedin ; George v, George Wellington ; and Jeffrey v. Jeffrey Christchurch. Evidence was taken in Henderson v. Henderson and Flynn co-respon-dent Auckland ; Harvey v. Harvey and Jones co-respondent Christchurch ; Jackson v. Jackson and Little co-respondent, Wellington ; and Carlson v. Carlson and Key co-respondent Wellington. Decrees nisi were made. Each was a husband's petition on the ground of the wife's adultery. None of the cases were defended. The perjury case against Mr Kinross of Napier, is set down for hearing, to-morrow in the Police Court. The Post says it is rumored to be now under the consideration of the Cabinet, to impose an income tax and to extend the present land tax, by a graduated system, so as to reach the large land owners rather than smaller proprietors. Several 1 prospecting parties are now atwork in 'the Tararua Ranges, Wairarapal district, and are said have met ttitfe encouraging indications of aurfferOuaf reefs; : The case of Henderson v. Henderson, heard at the Divorce Court to-day was an extraordinary one. Plaintiff, a miner ait Thames, had been married to respondent in 1867, when he was- a school boy only between 14 and 16 yeaisctf age* respondent being 21 and a servant in his parents' house at Whtfu. He had" seduced the girl, and. she informed him thevrstienceinte and with her aunt inveigled. ,hit» into a marriage in Auckland, the ceremony being: performed; hy Rev. Mr Wardtow DaviesV and all preliminaries as fo registrar's license being arranged by the bridge or her friend's; Since the night of the marriage he had never cohabited with his wife, and she- had been now firing for v seme- year? at T'araru with a man named,! Selwyn by whom, she had: two* children.." Plaintiff had not been; in & pecuniary position t* commence proceedings' earlier. : ■*