TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1487, 21 November 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE_NEWS.

AUSTRALIA..

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. London, November 20. Fouston, the leader, of the Conservatives in the French Assembly, challenged G-ambetta to a duel. The demanded the assembling of Parliament before the Afghan war. Disraeli refused to comply.

Sydney, November 20. The strikes continue. Seamen have been endeavoring to stop colliers from supplying the A.S.N. Company with coal. Tue company are about retaliating by closing their steam works, which employ three hundred men.

[fhom ottb own cobbespondent.] Dunedin, .November 21. Captain John McLean has been appointed Union Company's ships' husband, and is stationed at Wihiainstown. Wellington, November 21. The following fcoutb. island cases were heard in the Divorce Court yesterday:—Digby v Digby and Alexander Mr Chapman said that he had received a telegram, stating that the respondent and co respondent had bjth been served with due notice. Ho asked for a further adjournment until the affidavit of service could come up from Chri.-tehurch. The adjournment was granted,—Jeffrey v. Jeffrey, Murphy, fclvans and others. 'J his was the application for a decree »isi, made by Mr Travers. I he case was heard at christchurch before Judge Johnston and a jury. A curious point of law was raised. Neither respondent nor co-respon. dent had pleaded, and the question was, whether under such circumstances, was there anything for Lie jury to decide. If not the evidence tukou before them went for Inothing. Their finding was useless. It was finally decided to take the Judge's notes as evidence, putting the finding of the jury aside. Justice Johnston suggested that in future cases of this nature, to avoid the expense of bringing witnesses to Wellington to appear before the full Court, evidence might be taken by a commission. All the Judges agreed that it would be desirable to give a single Judge greater power to receive evidence in divorce cases. The petitioner, a wheelwright, married the respondent at Falmouth England in August, 1874. They immediately left for New Zealand on board the Geraldine, where the respondent became intimate with Murphy, one of the seamen On their arrival in the colony she prjmi-ed reformation, but when the petitioner left home at her instigation to find work, Murphy visited her. She subsequently became barmaid at the Criterion Hotel, Christchurch, aud afterward* lived at Timaru with a storekeeper named Kvatis, passing as his wife. A decree nisi was granted. The last case heard at the Divorce Court yesterday was Riley v Kiley. in which the wife sought for a di-solution of her marriage on the ground of adultery, cruelty, aud desertion of corespondent. Mr sicvowright appeared for the petitioner, who was a Mi s Robertson, daughter of an Invercargill contractor. In 1863 she met respondent, who was practising as a surgeon there, and they afterwards lived at Queenstown and Hokitika, a child being born ut the latter place. While there, respondent commenced a systematic course of it-treatment, striking, and even kicking his wife when tlm baby cried, or if she refused to clean his boots, because she was ill. She left him and went to reside with her mother for two years, but in 869 rejoined her husband. They then lived at Auckland and the Thames for a short time, but respondent did not regularly practice there, he continued his ill treatment, aud a deed of separation was drawn up. The respondent immediately left for Fiji, without -jiving petitioner anv notice of his intention, leaving her with only £lO, with which she returned to her mother. Respondent kept the child, and the petitioner lived with her mother and sister-in-law for several years, but now earned her own living as a dressmaker, 'i he delay n instituting the proceedings arose through her want of means. While at Fiji respondent committed adultery with a married woman named Lament. r i he evidence of the wife hiving bceu taken and that taken on commission atPji red over, the Court reserved judgment until Monday. Last night a little girl aged eight years was grossly outraged in one of tho chief streets of the city. The police have a clue to the perpetrator and are oil his track. [PBB PBE3S AGENCY.] Wellington, Is'ovenibe- 21. Mr Te-cheinaker, M.H.K. for Gladstone, died here this morning. Mr B-itkin. of the Treasury, lias been appointed assistant comptroller and auditor, while Mr Gavin takes Mr Batkin's place as accountant of the Treasury. Mr Heywood has been made accountant in the Laud Tax Department, of which Mr Sperry is chief

commissioner. Mr McLean, provincial auditor, has been appointed to the sub-commissionership of Auckland. Mr Watson, Government auctioneer, has been appointed sub-commissioner of Otago. Mr Mackay, commissioner of Native reserves, has been appointed sub-commissioner at ISelson. 'J he valuation node? the laud tux will begin enrly in December, and it is understood it will be ready for enforcement in January. Dunfdin, November 21. Mr Macandrcw arrived in Dunedin Yesterday. A slate deposit of a very valuable kind has bee-i discovered near Lake Hawea Signor Morley has given <£oo to the Bene Tolent Institution. This am unt was the proceeds of the second performance of "II Trovatore." Nelson, November 21. Curtis and Sharp, M H.R.'s for Nelson city, addressed their constituents la«t, night, and received votes of thanks and confidence, especially in reference to their action in connection with the r.iilway. isharp announced his intention of resigning on account of his temporary absence from the colony.