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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5350, 21 May 1878, Page 2

The starting of the daily mail to and from Foxton has been delayed one day, and will now start on Thursday, instead of Wednesday, as previously announced. A memorandum received from the Telegraph Department yesterday informs us that tho Port Darwin line haa been repaired, and communication resumed as usual.. - , . . | . Two of the cases which came before tha Divorce Court - yesterday revealed instances of gross immorality on the part of women,.and of a strange infatuation which had influenced two men.. There was a’ similarity iu both the suits in this respect—that the husbands bad married women whom they knew had lid immoral lives ; hut the men hoped to be able to lead them back from their evil ways and make good wives of them. In Barnes v. Barnes the evidence showed shooking'dissoluteness on the part of a young woman aged only 24 ; and in Devery v. Devery it was shown that the wife soon after marriage commenced drinking, and ere long forsook her husband, to follow an abandoned career. . When commenting on one of these strange stories of married life, Judge Johnston said.: ‘I It is far too common a'case that men marry prostitutes in a hurry, anl come to the Court for a divorce.” I In the last named suit some of the evidence taken was of a character unfit for publication. An uncnutli looking young fellow named John Smith was placed in the dock of the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, charged with breaking ■ into the’house of Miss Ellen Greenwood. It - appears, that- of',- late several petty larcenies have occurred in the neighborhood of Wellington-terrace, and Miss Greenwood, at the suggestion of a friend, purchased a revolver, determined to have a* pop at the first burglar that entered her premises. On Sunday night she thought that she heard somebody: in one of the back rooms, and; after getting her pistol in readiness she proceeded very courageously to institute a search, and found Smith with Iris boots off hid behind the door. :■ Miss Greenwood -aimed the pistol at his head, aud told him to be off. Iu answer to her questions the thief answered that he had been drinking, and did not know where he was wandering to. Miss Greenwood kept him under cover Of her pistol until' he cleared away. She, however, took particular notice of him, and gave such a correct description of hia appearance that Detective FarrelL arrested him yesterday morning. As the police were not prepared to proceed with the case the prisoner was remanded for eight days.

Mr. Macdonald, the contractor for the new Kilbirnie-road, is .making good progress with the work, and expects to finish it by the end of the present month.., This road starts at the end of Pirie-street, near Mr. W. Hutchison's residence, and is carried for about a,mile at an easy g>-ade up the hill, where it joins the Kill birnie township. It will, furnish the of Wellington with another pleasant suburban ride or walk, and possible, drive also, but for the latter purpose the road seems rather narrow, only some 12ft., except at the. crown of tlie hill, where there is to .be a cutting 4ft. in depth and 14yds. in width. The present contract also does not include metalling, but this desideratum will no doubt be added at a future time. It will no doubt be within the recollection of most of bur readers that a movement is on foot to start Turkish baths in Wellington, and we are glad to hear that a number of people havealready .putduwn their names assubsoribers to the undertaking. We understand that as soou as 600 £5 shares have been taken up the affair will be started. The project willdonbtless commend Itself to ,a large section of the community, and if once fairly set afloat there ■ cau bo little doubt of the undertaking proving, a success. ‘ Indeed, it is rather remarkable in a city like this, where progress and advancement in almost every direction are such marked features of the place, that the inhabitants have been so long without any establishment whore a Turkish bath can be obtained. . i, A supplement; to the. New Zealand; Gazetie of Thursday last, published yesterday, contains a communication from Mr. J. T. Thomson, the Surveyor-General of New, Zealand, to Sir Julius Vogel, Covering notes on the longitude of the survey observatory of: Wellington j and also computations of corrections of the moon’s distances, by Sir George Airoy. The technical importance of the subject consists in the survey observatory being the initial station of general surveys now going on. Sir Julius Vogel concurs in Mr. Thomson's suggestion that the information should bn published in the Gazette.

The successful candidates at the University oi Cambridge local examination, held at Wellington in Deotmber lust, are published in our advertising columns. The next examination will be hold hero next'December, and all entries must bo sent in to Mr. IC. Wilson, M.A., local secretary, on ov before Friday, July IS,

There will be a sitting of the Bankruptcy Court this morning.

His Honors,.Judge . Richmond arrived here last evening by the steamer Taiaroa from Nelson. " ._ In another column will'"be found the acceptances for the events to be contested at the sports of the Tradesmen’s Athletic Club, to be held on the Queen’s Birthday. Mr.: George Thomas holds a trade sale of general merchandise, teas, tobacco, produce, wines .and spirits, to-day,-- when several important lines will be offered. Mr. Inspector Lee, of the Education Department, is at present on a tour examining the schools at Tinui, Mauriceville, and , others in that locality. - • The value of the estate iu Victoria of the late' Mr. Edward Wilson, one of the proprietors of the A/rgus and tho Australasian, has been sworn at £23,000. It is understood that Mr. Wilson had a considerable fortune invested in England.

Messrs. Warburton and Goodman, of Lamb-tou-quay, notify in our advertising columns that they are about to dissolve partnership, and will dispose of their large and varied stock of fancy goods on very , liberal terms, particulars of which will be found iu the advertisement referred to.

In order to give people an opportunity of attending the Nelson races on the Queen’s Birthday and spending a few days there, the Union Steam. Ship Company have laid on the s.s. Wellington for the trip. , She will leave this p-irt for Nelson at one p.m. on Thursday, returning early the following Sunday morning.

' The will of the late Mr. Justice Fellows has been proved in the Supreme Court, Melbourne, his estate being sworn at £24,200. The executors appointed are his brother (the Rev. Walter Fellows) and Mr. J. B. Box,.barristeratrlaw. Annuities are given to-the testator’s wife, to hia mother, and to other parties, and provision is also made for the distribution of his property among his relatives, i. We yesterday saw in tho Council Chambers some samples of Hongkong granite brought here by the schooner May. In. California this stone is largely-used for paving the streets. The samples shown us . are considered by experts to be admirably adapted for building purposes and for paving stones. It was stated that tho stone could be landed here as cheap as the Nelson stone.

The proceedings iu the Divorce Court yesterday were of a peculiar character. All the petitioners wore husbands ; and in no ,'case did the wife or co-respondent appear by counsel, or offer any opposition to the application for a divorce. In McMahon v. McMahon and Russell, it appeared that soon after the McMahon's were married, iu 1869, they quarrelled about religion and separated. 1 In 1877 Mrs.- McMahon, not having heard of her husband far a period of seven years, and possibly believing in the popular delusion: that after the lapse of that time a person becomes somebody else, took unto hersolf one Robert Russell as a husband. It may be that Mrs. Russell, lately Mrs. McMahon, nee Sarah Jano Harris, thought, that McMahon by keeping away for seven years had divorced himself; at any rate she, in-all good faith, married her second. : This was more than McMahon could stand, and he immediately reappeared on the scene, to vindicate his wounded honor by instituting proceedings for a divorce. He obtained a rule nisi, and has advanced his cause one stage. The Hawke’s Bay Herald states that an exeeutjon upon a judgment for £3780, which was entered about two months ago by default against Arihi te Naha, at the suit of the Hon, H. R. Russell, was recently put into force ; but as the moveables in Arihi’s (Alice’s) possession consisted of Maori mats, valued at sa. for the lot, the officer bearing the warrant of execution returned to town.. ■■

, yf o ( Wairarapa Register) ate glad to notice that another local industry is about to .be started in Masteftun in the shape of a boilingdown establishment about to be erected by Mr. Perry. It is to be situated near his present slaughterhouse on the Tipper Plain, and we are informed the machinery will be on a sufficiently large scale to boil down 200 sheep daily., It, is expected to be in full working order in about three weeks, ...