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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 85, 11 May 1877, Page 3

The following additional particulars, which we gather from a contemporary, in reference to the pretty little romance in Wellington, will, no doubt, prove interesting : —" We observe now, by the Waira * rapaNeios that this alleged bigamy case has assumed a new phase. When last brought up, the lady—Agnes Robinsonwas in the absence of any evidence for — the prosecution," discharged. On ,that occasion it appeared that Cheeseman, the first husband, had written a letter positively declining to go on with the prosecution. He is said to be willing to take the lady back. Robinson, the secand husbane, has now in turn been prosecution ' Agnes.' On Friday, in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Featherston, Mr. Stedman, on his behalf, applied to Mr. Wardell for a warrant for the apprehension of Agnes. Mr. Wardell, the Resident Magistrate, rather demurred to granting the warrant, but ultimately said he would take time to consider the application. From what transpired in Court it appears that the fair but fickle lady was originally called Agnes Williams, and that she married a person named Cheeseman in England. Then, somehow or other, after coming out here, she went to the Wairarapa, leaving Cheeseman, and in November last, according to the charge against her,

married a labourer named Robinson at Tenui. The position of the case at present is : Robinson is tired of Agnes, and wishes to be quit of her ; hence he prosecutes her for bigamy. Cheeseman, on the other hand, is full of love and forgiveness.' It is quite an . affecting little

drama."