A. NEW ZEALAND MYSTERY.

Patea Mail, 16 October 1882, Page 4

A. NEW ZEALAND MYSTERY.

In the Probate and Divorce Division recently, before the Right Hon. the President,. (he case of re Congreve was heard. This was : hn order of presumption of death of the late Sir "Willi anr Augustus ContgrCve. and of his brother,' Mr William Frederick Congreve; • Mr Bay-ford, in making the application, said that holh of the . brothers had disappeared. • The ■younger.-brother, William Frederick, whs formerly in the.aiavy, but left in 1851. He travelled in Africa and the West Indies, and corresponded with his relations: Tn April, 1860, he wrote a letter saying that he wasgoing to Halifax, New Brunswick, and; that' was the last which was heard of him. .His lordship said that ‘.a peculiarity 7 in the, case was that the two iirothors had disappeared in different-parts of the world. Mr Bayford said that there was a further peculiarity in the case,-viz, that both of the brothers appeared to have passed by the feigned name of “William Cooke.” Both of them were entitled to property under their uncleV-will. .. The 'usual appeared in. the newspapers .in regard to the younger brother. In respect to the elder brother, SiFWrn. AugushioCQng:reyq,ltbe Wttfer was~ morn complicated. Ho left England in 1847 for New Zealand, where he was occupied in agiiculture.- -He from time’to time corresponded, ..the last letter being received in 1860. From one of the affiylavitsbhe was stated, to have also passed as “ Will ia tie,Cooke.”,. His lordship, after looking, .at the: affidavits, said that death might reasonably 7 he presumed of the ymtinger brother,* blit (lie matter must stand ove'- .in respect to Sir Win. Augustus Congreve,