LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 520, 28 May 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Wellington, May 27. In the Divorce Court to-day," before the Chief Justice and Justices Johnston, Gillies, and Willinns, the case of Woolcock v. Woolcock and Waddell cirae on. The petitionee, Chas. Woolcock, M.H.R., for Ih,- Giey Valley, sought a div .roe from his wife in co-,-' requeue? of misconduct with the cocorrespo.ide'it. Mr Travers appeared for the petitioner, C. Woolcock, who marrird the respondent, then Mary Jane Lovell, at the Piesbvteri«li Church, Nelson, in October, 1865. lie was then 35 years of age, and his wife about 20. They afterwards lived together in Greymouth, where the petitioner was engaged in business. After

his return from his Parliamentary duties in 1876, he found the corespondent, James Waddell, had been engaged by his wife to assist in the business. Woolcock suspected that an improper intimacy existed between them, but for some time could obtain no positive proof. Th«y lived in a house separate from the store, -which was settled upon Mrs Woolcock. She at length refused to admit her husband to tho house, and he had to take lodgings in town. Soon after this Waddell was imprisioned for assaulting an old man, and on his release he went to Nelson, Mrs Woolcock following him in the course of a few days, and they lived at an hotel as man and wife, passing under the name of Osborne. Waddell then went down to Dunedin, where he was again rpjoined by Mrs Woolcock. After heating evidence, the Court granted a rule nisi. The Census returns of the Colony are now completed—males, 230,898 ; females, 183.273 : total, 414,171. In this is included 4300 Chinese, but no Maoris. The population of the Chatham Islands is 100 males and 72 females. Chrtstchurch, May 27. Colonel Brett's station, Mount Torlesse, was sold for £II,OOO. It comprised 21,000 acres leasehold, 530 preemptive right, 800 freehold, 10,000 sheep, and house and station buildings. At the Jockey Club Meeting the Treasurers statement showed a credit balance for the year of £l9 7s 3d, as against £2 5s for the previous year, besides which several permanent, improvements have been paid for out of current revenue, and orer 100 of old debts cleared off, notwithstanding th« increase in the value of stakes. The club is thus in a much better financial position than twelve months ago. The disqualification of O. C. M'Gee, George M'Gee, and Falcon, by the Auckland Club was endorsed, and an application for the removal of the disqualification from M'Kay was refused. Auckland, May 27. The fire on the premises of Haliiday, cabinemiaker, this morning, broke out under a window, neir the do >r, and called considerable damage to the work-ho;.. The lo.s i; estirmted at £ISOO The building is insured in the New Z-aUnd office, foi £9OO, the furniture in the South B itish for £I3OO. Fears are entertained for the safetv of the Cheia, from Melbourne to Kail>ara, which sailed on the 11th inst, and wh-- seen six miles outside on the 17th, but has not been s?eu since. Serious floods have occurred at Coromaudel. destroying several bridges. Mines' races, tramways, and houses have suffered considerably, and there were many landslips. Sir John C>ode inspects the Auckland harbor and dock to-morrow. Dunedin, May 27Th? erection of a new Roman Catholic Cathedral is about to be commenced here, a t a cost of £26,000. It will hold 2000 people when finished. It is proposed to erect only the nave and aisle at present. The cost of this will be £6OOO, and it will accommodate 800.