Colonial Telegrams.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 67, 15 November 1887, Page 3

Colonial Telegrams.

A Mr Quinn shot himself at Invercargill on Saturday. John Bennet, a sailor, has been committed for trial for stabbing a shipmate at Wellington on Sunday. William Rutherford was fined £6O for slygrog selling in an up country town at Dunedin. The fine is considered too small, considering the circumstances. The Court of Appeal opened at Wellington yesterday. Two speelers have been arrested at Christ- • church. A carious ease has come before the Auckland Police Cojrt. a woman named Brown being at the bottom of the trouble. She had instituted proceedings one George Pooley for alleged affiliation, but the whole thing turned out to be a sham. The women is now being prosecuted for perjury. The King Country natives are using threats towards gold prospectors, and have warned several who were possessed with passes from Wahanui. .

At the Presbyterian Synod at Dunedin, the Rev. R. Sutherland gave the the following instance, in his arguments against the Divorce Act:—A Mrs Slade of America, had recently asked thd*court to separate her from' her husband on such grounds as these First, that when she was married her eyesigh: was bad—(laughter)—but marriage had opened her eyes—(laughter)—and when her eyes were opened she discovered that her hue. band was guilty of having an immense lot of red hair upon his head, and a wart of considerable size on the tip of his nose. (Re. newed laughter.) The Rev. Mr Will—You don’t believe that, do you! The Rev. Mr Sutherland—That is a fact. (More laughter.) Her second husband snored so loudly that she could not sleep at night with him, and so she wished to be separated from him on that ground. With regard to her third bushand, her ground of objection was that he did not show her the attention that a woman of her quality was deserving of. He had not go much as kissed her since the day on which they were married. (Laughter.) Such were the grounds on which she had asked to be separated from one husband after another. The Court took them into consideration, and alter due deliberation granted the lady’s re. quest, and divorced her from husband after husband on such grounds as these