INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 193, 24 May 1878, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaku, May 22,

Young Maitland, who was injured in the coach accident yesterday, died this morning. He was son of Mr J. P. Maitland, and tvas on his way to school at Christ-church. His father and mother arrived here just in time to sco their son die. Goddard, the driver, has been insensible all day, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. An iuquest is now being held.

A New Ground for Divorce.—The best divorce story we {Hertford limes) remember hearing of lately comes from one of the North-western States, the facts in which are about as follows : A Milesian lady -whose marital relations had become distasteful, called upon a prominent attorney in that section of country lately, with a view of securing his service in a divorce case, she being aboui to enter suit against her husband. In answer to a question as to the grounds for an application for divorce, the lady stated with emphasis, " Pat gets drunk." But finding such complaint insufficient, and evidently ■ intending to remove further objection, she made the still more emphatic declaration.' " But he bates me." The remarkable vigour, both mental and muscular, exhibited by the lady being strongly adverse to the theory of her suffering to any marked extent upon that score, the weighty argument, which she had probably designed as a clincher from the first, was finally produced, when assuming an air of confidential triumph resulting from a consciousness that she was at last mistress of the situation, she exclaimed, " I have strong suspicion that Pat is not the father of me youiigest child." — Sydney Mail, April 13. •

At a christening, while the minister was giving the certificate, he happened to say : " Let me see—this is the 30th." " The thirtieth!" exclaimed the indignant mother, " indeed, it's only the eleventh."

A clergyman was preparing his sermon for Sunday, stopping occasionally to review what he had written and to erase that which he was disposed to dissaprove, when he was accosted by his little son : " Father, does God tell you what to preach ?" " Certainly, my child," " Then what makes you scratch it out?"