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Evening Star, Issue 3512, 26 May 1874, Page 3

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: Wellington, May 25. In the Divorce Court, in the case of Carpenter v. Carpenter and Morley, neither respondent nor co-respondent was represented, The parties belonged to Akaroa. The wife was charged with committing adultery at Christchurch and Wellington, bnt it was only attempted, to be proved regarding the latter place. The Court found tho allegation of adultery fully proved, and a decree nisi will lie granted as soon as the co-respondent’s Christian name is ascertained correctly. In the case Carpenter v. Carpenter, the Court decided that the petitioner was entitled to a rule imi, and condemned the co-respondent to pay the whole of the, costs of the proceedings, including the casts petitioner bad or. should have to pay his wife. The ship Womington was towed in by the Phoebe this afternoon. All well on board. All immigrants will be landed to-morrow.

, Auckland, May 25. Weather very wet; consequently thin attendance at races. Autumn Handicap : Batter, 1; Parawlienua, 2; Golden Crown, 3. Discord bolted, and Batter won by three lengths. The Champagne Stakes was a walk over for the Bird. Selling Stakes ; Never Miss. 1; B*ndarra, 2. Trial Stakes: Bismarck, 1 ; Ranga, 2. ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. The steamer Atrato, after repairing and passing inspection, left on Easter Monday, with 400 emigrants for Canterbury and Otago. Several of the emigrants who left tho first time * refused to proceed in her, and returned to their homes, after enjoying the trip for several days, and free rations. A terrible explosion has occurred in the mine of the Duke of Enfield. It caused the death of fifty-three persons, and injured twenty others. Joseph Arch is to arrange an extensive emigration of farm-laborers from ’England to America. Tffie steamship Faraday has begun to load with the new Atlantis cable, which will be laid direct to the United States. Two railway accidents have occurred inland, resulting in the death and injury of twenty persons. Ur Gladstone, in reviewing the Budget, said he regarded the removal of a penny from the Income Tax as an important ’step towards the abolition of taxes. A Bill, abolishing sugar duties has finally passed the House of Commons. • A Special meeting of the committee relative r°i nnA Agricultural Laborers’ Union granted f° r the relief of the locked-out laborers, 4,000 of whom are now on the Union’s fund. A London letter says that m the Eastern counties of England there is a bitter conflict between the farmers and the laborers ; the latter have ■joined the Union. In Warwickshire they demanned an extra Is a-week : this was refused .the laborers, consequently they struck on one or two farms. The farmers generally retaliated by locking out all the Union men, and declaring that henceforth they will employ only nonunionists. 'The landlords supported the farmers, and threaten to eject those who do hold aloof from relation with Unionists. ihe Parliamentary vote to defray expenses of the Ashantee expedition amounts to L 990,000. A new movement is on foot in London for a Parliament of working men; an organisation is formed, and committee appointed. A Bill has been introduced into Parliament at tbs instigation of the Early-Closing Assoeiation for closing all shops at 8 p.m. Dr Kenealy has been excluded from the mess of Oxford Circuit for want of etiquette in the Tichbome case. This deprives him of professional status, no junior being allowed to engage with him. In a letter to the Press, Kenealy indignantly denies the charge made against him, and says he dissents from tho verdict of the jury. He believes the claimant still to be Tichbome, and that the real Arthur Orton will be in England before 12 months and acknowledged as such, and the defendant released. The report of the Eastern Extension Anstrolia and China Telegraph Company shows the year’s profit to be L 156.975. A dividend equal to 64 per cent was declared, and L 39,950 carried to the reserve fund. The British steamship Queen Elizabeth,from Calcutta for England, became a wreck at Punta Arenas, in Spain. Twenty-three lives were lost, including H. J. Allardice, missionary ©f the Society for the propagation of the Gospel, with his wife and three children.

* CONTINENTAL. ... Paris, April 18, Sixty millions word voted: for the repair of the French fortifications. With reference to the escape of Rochefort and his companions, the Paris ‘Soir’ says the escape of the 1* ranch convicts has already led to an exchange of notes between the Cabinets ht Versailles and St, James’s, According to the Information of the English Government it was a French vessel fitted by friends of the prisoners, having on board a crew of twentyfive men, who were quite determined to fight if necessary. Seventeen convicts were to be carried off, but when the moment arrived only five were ready, the others being engaged at work assigned to them. The English authorities declare that the captain fraudulently hoisted the British flag, but the French believe they can prove that the vessel was equipped and prepared in a British port, and that the British Government should be held responsible. Upon reaching Sydney Rochefort telegraphed for 25,000f, to M, Main, formerly Prefect of the Paris Police, and guardian of his children. After satisfying, himself that this was not an attempt at a hoax, Adain forwarded the money, part of which was supplied by two newspapers—viz., ‘Eepublique Francaise’ and the ‘Rapport.’ M. Victor Hugo also contributed 6,300f, Ffigr hundred thousand francs have been subscribed for the refief of the laboring classes in Pains. The distress grows wider daily. Two batches of Lothringen priests' (37 in all) have been tried at the Court at Metz for reading from the pulpit the pastoral of tho Bishop of Nancy, commanding the faithful to pray to tho Blessed Virgin to intercede for the speedy reunion of the annexed provinces to France, Of the first hatch, eleven ecclesiastics were to a fortnight’s imprisonment; three to a week’s confinement, and the remainder were acquitted. . The official report relative to the Central Asian affairs says that after the Turcomans bad been punished for robbery, tranquillity was perfectly re-established. Tribute was collected, although with great difficulty, Usbecks qn the left bank of the Anno Daria have since declared themselves moat grateful to the Russians, who have liberated the Khivese from the oppressions of the.Saimulen,

Italy. Large numbers of Roman noblemen attended the Vatican on March 23 to pay homage to the Pope as a counter demonstration the King’s ascension. His Holiness*made an energetic speech, praising the unalterable devotion of the Roman nobility, who had given the world an example of faithfulness in adversity. A considerable meeting of Romans was held at Loggie de Kaffacto. They saluted the Pope with frantic cheers.

AMERICAN NEWS.

. . San Francisco, April 27. Bandit Vaißcheuz, for whose head a reward of 15,000d0l was offered, is again ravaging tho southern counties of California. Ho seized the Ranchero San Gabriel at his mission near Los Angeles, and compelled him to write a cheque for 500 del. There lias been an epidemic of crime at San Francisco. Six violent deaths took place in one week. A murderer committed suicide beside the body of his victim, and another nearly similar case occurred a few days after; but the coroner and jury disbelieved the statement of tho survivor, and found him guilty of the murder of his comrade. President Grant vetoed the Senate Currency Bill. The President’s message on the Navigator Islands will soon be printed. The report of Commissioner Sternbergen attracted considerable attention. The conflict of claim to the Governorship of Arkansas causes great anxiety. Brooks and Baxter, the rival claimants, have each raised an army. The Federal troops were called on to restore quiet. . Rio Janeiro. The mail steamer arrived reports a rupture between the Argentine Republic and the Government of Montevideo, becaase of jjermiento arbitrarily closing the River Paraguay against a Banda Oriental vessel. A settlement of the difficulty is hoped for. Venezuela advices state that Governor Pulgar, of Maracaibo, fled from the Province to Kingston, on account of a revolt against despotism. The news has reached Panama of the loss of the Chilian coasting steamer Tacha, with nineteen persons. The loss of life is attributed to a panic which seized the crew, two of whom mad# off with the only boat. The friends of Stokes, the murderer of James Fisk, intend applying for his pardon.