INTERPROVINCIAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 1048, 19 May 1882, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

At the sitting of the Divorce • Court at Wellington on May 15, the case of Vause v. Vause (Dunedin was heard. This is a petition of the wife, Georgina Vause, fora decree 71 hi, on the grounds of adultery and desertion. The parties were married at Alexdra South in 1871, and lived together until 1879. Three children were the issue of the,‘marriage. Respondent, it is alleged, lived in adultery with a Mrs Sutcliffe in Wellington. A decree ni/ti was granted.

Vause iaabontS? years of ago, and is wellknown in Dunedin, where, it is said, he served a sentence for embezzlement.

W. W. Vause, against whom his wife obtained a divorce at the Court at Wellington on May 15, made a determined attempt at suicide by shooting hbnself. He proceeded to Maginnity’s hoarding-house, where he was lodging, and went upstairs, apparently in his usual spirits. Shortly afterwards a loud rc.ort »aa heard, and on the landlord rushing upstairs he found Vause lying on the bed, partially dressed, 'and a carbine lying by his side. It was then ascertained that Vause had shot, himself in the loft lung, and the bullet, (after passing through his shoulder-blade, stuck just inside the skin at the hack. It is thought that the divorce preyed on his mind Dr Rawson, who attended him, holds out very slight hopes of recovery.

By .1 late telegram dated 16th inst. it appears that death took place at 2 o’clock that morning. Preparations arc being made to save the City of Perth, which is still almost uninjured and alloat. with her head to sea. Jt has been ascertained she was insured by the Glasgow Underwriters’ Association. It is a strange coincidence that the City of Cashmere, the City of Perth, and the Benvcnue were built under the same roof, at Glasgow, shortly after one ano'her, and have come to grief witliin a short distance of one another.

The official inquiry into the wrecks of the City ot Perth and the Benvenne is not to bo held till next week. Their captains and Captain Rowlands, of the Duke of Sutherland, will then proceed Homo by the first Orient boat.

On May 1.3, the committee of the Harbour Board took evidence on oath in regard to the condition of the barque Duke of Sutherland, recently wrecked here. Her boatswain and two apprentices swore that the vessel was rotten and leaky, and that the crew were afraid to go to sea in her again, as .they believed she would never reach England, The purchaser of the wreck

corroborated this by stating that many of the princiblo beams andfplanks, fas well ns the stern-post were like cheese. On the other hand, the first mate said she was strongly built, and ho knew of nothing the matter with her. Porno pieces of timber were produced and fully boro out the evidence of her unsoaworthiness.

The Exhibition special fcorrespondont of the Post writes that owing to the extraordinary jumbling of exhibits, he is unable to continue his letters. “Some correspondents,” he says, “ have in despair taken the catalogue as the basis of their reports, with oven worse results, inasmuch as at least onethird of it consists of entries of exhibits that have not come forward, and a third of those that are there find no place in thejcataloguo You can judge from this how bewildering my task has been ” “ Certainly,“lsays the Post, “ the muddle seems to have been complete ; and wo fear the Christchurch International Exhibition will not be recorded in history as a triumphant success, if indeed its memory does not go down to posterity as that of a.dismallfailure.”