INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
(PEE UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, June 20. At the Supreme Court this morning an application for the dissolution of the marriage in Thurston v. Thurston was granted on the grounds of the (fife's adultery with one Fletcher. The Premier is improving in health, though still confined to his bed, and it is doubtful whether he will attend Parliament this week. This Day, A singular point cropped up at the Court this morning m connection with the decree nisi granted yesterday in the caße of Thurston v. Thurston. It appears that the Court should not have been sitting yesterday, being the anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty, and a Court holiday. To settle all doubts a special sitting of the Divorce Court was held this morning, when the evidence taken yesterday was read over before the petitioner, who certified to its correction, and the petition was again pronounced. Invebcaboill, June 20. Yesterday afternoon, as Dr Galbraith was passing along a street at North Invercargill, John M alone j, Inspector of Nuisances for the Borough, followed the doctor with a double barrelled gun, and deliberately fired at him. The doctor was severely wounded in the thigh, his leg from the hip to the knee being riddled with a heavy charge of shot. The doctor is an elderly man, and is suffering from the shock to his system. Maloney was brought before the R.M. on a charge of attempted murder and remanded for eight days. Dunedin, This Day. At the inquest of Mrs Gemtnel, who died rather suddenly at Mosgiel, it tran* spired she had been treated by Peters, a medical student, for menginitis. The rumors circulated that she had not Bufficient food cr nourishment were without foundation. Ihe jury returned a verdict of — died from natural causes. Auckland, This Day. On the passage of the schooner Lizzie Guy from Oamaru a man named James Shaw fell overboard, and was drowned, >ut his body was not recovered. Napieb, June 20. D. Porter, the absconding Cambridge bank clerk, was arrested at Pohori tbaday.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 138, 21 June 1888, Page 2
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