INTERPROVINCIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 676, 5 January 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(From our own Correspondent.)

Christchurch, January 4. As a wedding party were proceeding to church at Rangiora this morning in a double-wheeled buggy, on turning the corner opposite the Junction Hotel, the bugey swerved, causing the bridesmaid to fall over the side. The bridegroom setting beside her, caught hold of her dress, and held on to her until the horse could be pulled up. The only damage she received was to her dress, the wheel running against it across her waist. It was found that the side guard of the buggy had broken off. The mishap did not hinder the wedding taking place. The yacht Zephyr left this evening for Akaroa, with Alessrs Baker and Eich on board. The Fleotwing put into Pigeon Bay yesterday. At the Invercargill Police Court to-day, a rabbiter named Mulholland was brought up and remanded on a charge of having on New Ye.ir's Dry discharged a loaded gun at his wife, with intent to do her grevious bodily harm. The parties live at Jething River, in Oreli Riding of Southland County, and accused fired through a door on the other side of which his wife was pushing, in order to keep him out. The ball struck her stays and grazed the spine. The wound inflicted is not serious, but there is danger of erysipelas seating in. It is understood that Mulholland was jealous of his wife, who is considerably younger than he is. Two petitions for dissolution of marriage will be heard at the Supreme Court, Wellington, this, month, namely, Neilson v. Avery Barber v. Barber. In the formejccaseiTie petitioner, Henry Andrew Neilson, hotel-keeper at Taitai, states that he was married to the respondent in March, 1873—n0 issue. On October 1, 1882, she committed adultery with George Avery, fanner, Taitai, and he therefore prays for a dissolution of the marriage, and £200 damages, with costs of proceedings. The respondent and co respondent deny the alleged adultery. In the other case, the petitioner, William Peter Barber, Upper Hutt, farmer, late of Wellington dyer, states that he married the respondent, Sophia Houldon, in March, 1856, at Wellington. She had four children. In 1869 the respondent deserted him, and left the Colony, and had since cohabited with a man named Adams, late engine-driver or fireman on board the Tararua, who was drowned during the wreck of that steamer in 1881.