LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2065, 12 April 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, April 11

A man named Jeremiah Murphy is missing. He came out to the colony as a clergyman of the Church of England, and on being sent by the Bishop of Wellington to take duty at Palmerston North he arrived there inebriated. Since then he appears to have been acting as kitchen-man at two or three hotels in Wellington. Lately he threatened to drown himself.

A respectably-dressed young man named Fred. Sayers was to-day sentenced to four months’ imprisonment on two charges of false pretences. He is a nephew of the Marquis of Normanby. At the next sitting of the Supreme Court in the divorce and matrimonial causes jurisdiction, the suit of Maidment v. Maidment and another is appointed for hearing. The petitioner Charles Maidment, of Wellington, contractor, sues for a dissolution of marriage on the grounds of the respondent’s alleged adultery with the co-respondent, Samuel Rowe, of the Hutt, settler. The parties were married at Wairau, in the Marlborough district, on the 16fh of July, 1859, the wife’s name being Hannah Pickering. Since, the petitioner and his wife lived together at the Wairau, and subsequently at the Hutt, and there have been issue ten children, the eldest of whom is married to a resident of Palmerston North. The petitioner alleges that on or about the 13th June, 1881, and other occasions since that date, and the 28th March last, the I’espondent committed adultery with the co-respondent at the Hutt, wherefore the petitioner prays for a decree granting annulment of the marriage, and further seeks that the corespondent my be ordered to pay the sum of .£IOOO by way of damages, together with the whole of the costs incidental to the proceedings. THE REVENUE OF THE COLONY. Wellington, April 11. The Customs return for the Colony for the financial year ending 31st March have now been made public. The total amount of revenue was £1,496,948 2s lid, being a deficiency of £3051 17s Id on the Colonial Treasurer’s estimate of £1,500,000. The highest amount collected in any one month was in September last, when it reached £140,089 14s 8d ; the lowest, £109,363 13s 3d, was collected in April, 1882. The beer duty for last year was £62,664 6s 6d, being a surplus of £2,664 6s 6d over the Treasurer’s estimate, and this deducted from the deficiency from the Customs revenue leaves the total deficiency for the year from this branch of £387 10s 7d, which is considered most satisfactory. The Customs’ revenue for the Colony for the last month was £125,117 12s 3d. The corresponding month last year was £140,802 0s 3d. The returns from the principal places were as follows :—Auckland, £25,786 ; Wellington, L 19,452 ; Lyttelton and Christchurch, LI 9,883 5 Dunedin, L 34,588. At each of these a deficiency is shown on the amount returned for 1882. The beer duty for the last month was L 5645 12s 4d, and for the corresponding month last year, L 5657 3s Bd.