WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 64, 16 March 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

DIVORCE CASE. s (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. Mr Justice Cooper gave his reserved judgment to-day in the divorce suit, Ada Frances Mitchell v. William Mitchell, granting a decree nisi. His Honor that whereas in this case tbc husband, with the consent of his wife, leaves the colony with the intention of forming a .home for himself and his wife, aqd after a short interval suddenly ceases to correspond with her, and continues for a long period to neglect either to write to his .wife or supply her with any means of support, there was, in his Honor’s opinion, evidence of intention to desert from the time the husband breaks off correspondence, DEATH OF'A CAPTAIN. Captain Neil McDonald, who was master of the ketch Gratitude, wrecked some years ago at Macquarie Islands, died at Porirua. At the inqust the medical evidence showed that death resulted from the effects of uraemia. CRUELTY TO SHEEP. '

' The S.M., who fined two, ’ml" £5 cach for cruelty to sheep to-day, later on reduced the fine to £l, on it being explained to him that the sheep had been brought iuto town to be sent away by steamer, but that as the vessel could not take them they had to be sent back to Pctonc. They could not be driven at that time of the day, and had to be sent in a cart. NATIVE MINISTER. The Native Minister left for Papawai to-day to consult the Maoris there in reference to the reception which is to be given by the Natives to the Duke and Duchess of York. A REMARKABLE CASE. A case began to-day before Mr Justice Cooper, in which Mrs Johanna Flockton sought to compel George Leonard to fulfil an agreement for the sale of a section in Dixon street, with buildings thereon, for .£7OO, a deposit of .£lO having already been paid. Defendant relied upon the statute of frauds as a bar to action, and pleaded that if he did agree to sell the property, he was, as plaintiff well knew, so drunk, and suffering from the effects of drink to such an extent, that he was unable to comprehend the meaning or effect of, the agreement. . The Court is sitting to-night on the case,