DUNEDIN.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 18, 19 December 1877, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

. . . Saturday. The TTnion. Company's annual excursion to the West Coast Sounds by the Hawea promises to be a great success. Sixty passengers have already booked from all parts of the colony, including, fifteen ladies. Captain Malcolm takes charge for the trip, as he is thoroughly acquainted with the Sounds. The Hawea will not call at the Bluff, as the port dues are soheavy, :. ' : A remarkable prosecution for perjury was instituted against Jane Galloway, otherwise Bellamy,' by a young woman named Ada Maria Galloway, m consequence of the defendant having declared m an affidavit that the prosecutrix was the illegitimate ' child of her first husband. After two hearings the case was again adjourned until this . morning. The facts are shortly as follows ::— -The prosecutrix on her father's death was . living at Wakari with her uncle, m . whose family she had been brought up from childhood. She obtained letters „of over herfather's property,: which comprised some valuable sections. Subsequently defendant, who had married a Mr. Bellamy m the meantime,, arrived m New Zealand from Sidney, and instituted Supreme Court proceedings with a view of obtaining her deceased husband's property. Affidavits were made, m which she declared Sj Miss . Galloway to Vbe the illegitimat j daugli' er of - her fir >t husband by a dressmaker m Glasgow. .In consequence of. .this declaration the letters of administration were cancelled, am appeal to the Court of Appeal failed to alter the result, and then the present criminal proceedings were taken with the object of -removing the imputation. -, Respecting Miss Galloway's birth, for the prosecution a certificate of the registration.of the prosecutrix' s birth m Sydney is produced. The 'case has already occupied the Resident Magistrate's Court two days, and the evidence is likely to be very lengthy. \; Tuesday. Somerville & Darley, the Evangelists, are to arriv^ at Auckland m January, and visit Christchurch and Dunedin. A private offer of £10,500 was refused for the "Times" freehold. . ; ,A fire occurred at Guthrie & Larnach's hardware store. A large quantifcy of kerosene and sixteen kegs of powder were stored, with other iMammable materials. The powder Tap not got out before the last keg was oavnre. Origin of fire unknown. Building' And stock insured m the Victoria for £3,600. Damage about £10,000. :