LATE TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 31 October 1907, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Sight. A knotty and tangied iskem ol marl.al thread fell to the lot of tno Divorce Court to unravel this morning. Mr Justice Cooper was on the Bencu. < The facts briefly were that Unas, iuuiico.tt, a contractor, of Johnsonvilie, sought a nullity of his marriage With Ohnsftina Entioott (nee George), on the grouuu uiut at We time ut meir marriage on the 20th September, 100U, she was already the lawful wife of Ernest Francis Raston, and that , her marriage with liaston had never been dissolved, annulled," or abrogated. The. respondent filed a reply to the petition, in which she_ denied that she was lawfully married to Raston, inasmuch as when she went through the ceremony with hun on 2nd July, 1902, he was already the lawful husband of Minnie Henrietta James, whom he had married at Kentown, Adelaide, in 1876. ~ It would seem that Minnie Henrietta was still alivo at the time of her spouse's nuptials with Miss George, and that she had subsequently made the alleged bigamous proceeding the ground for obtaining a divorce in South Australia, It was stated In the respondent's reply, that the existence of Raston's former wife was unknown to her when she married Entlcott in 1902; that she told iiim at the time that she had - gone through a form of marriage with liastoji, and that the fact of this marriage being null and void through the existence of the previous Mrs Raston made her wedding with Raston an unlawful proceeding. When the case was called, Mr Peacock, who was for the petitioner, said that alter inspecting the evidence of the respondent he was satisfied the petitioner had no case. Alter some argument, his Honor dismissed the petition on the ground that no evidence was altered to support it. Dunediu, Last Night. Sixteen firemen and tr.mmers signed oil m a body frgin the Warrimoo today, alleging as their reason that they Wh'f aer the tllird engineer While at the Bluff, one of the fosmea was hiMxl two days' pay for threatening and abusing the engmer in question, but nothing further transpired until about 9 hours after the vessel .berthed at this' .port. ihe.men were promptly: u owed to-sign olf, their places b?ing Idled by men taken from the company's shore and a few others who were available Several of the mem asked to be allowed to return on again, but were lefused, and two paid their passages to f er PP orts ' others remalnng here

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