TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1496, 22 April 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

At the Divorce Court, Christchurch, on Monday Mr Justice Johnston granted a decree nisi in the case Mcßratney v. McBratney, and a similar decree in Simpson, v Simpson. During the sitting His Honor on two occasions called attention ■to the presence of females in the Court as spectators. Ho said it was disgusting for them to stop and listen to the details of such cases, but as his words had no effect, he ordered all the young girls to retire. On Tuesday the case of Ebeling v. Ebeling, the wife’s petition for a judicial separation, was heard and the petition refused. During the. hearing His Honor Judge Johnston again called attention to the presence of young women in the Court, and ordered them to be removed by force if necessary. Mr Mitchell, the proprietor of the Zealandia Carpet Factory, which was recently burned down, was arrested in Christchurch on Saturday last charged with arson. Only one witness was examined, and the case was remanded, the accused being admitted to bail. A man named John Colvey was killed at Rangitira Station (Wellington), on Sunday morning. He was riding one horse and leading another, which dragged him off the horse he was riding and trod upon him.

The writ for the Sydenham seat has been issued, returnable before May 26th. A mill hand named Whittington Lane, residing at Kaituna, near Blenheim, was accidentally shot by a companion named Henry Dorren, on Sunday morning while getting into the boat at Havelock to go duck shooting. The deceased was shot in the groin and lived only a few minutes.

A promenade concert, arranged to take place on the Queen’s Wharf, Wellington, in aid of the sufferers by the Taiaroa, will be a great success if the weather is fine. Superintendent Grant and Constable McQuartier, (he survivors from the Taiaroa disaster, left Blenheim for Wellington on Tuesday night, en route to the Oamaru Easter encampment, after returning from which they will give evidence at the official enquiry in Wellington. An auxiliary branch of the New Zealand Temperanae Alliance was formed at Dunedin on Friday evening, under the auspices of Sir William Fox and Mr Glover. Mr A Rennie was elected president.

Robert Fitzroy Bolton, a well known Auckland commission ngent, appeared before the Police Court on Friday on a charge of inducing Hudson Williamson, Crown Prosecutor, to endorse a promissory note for £9OO with intent to, defraud. It is understood that the Waitnea Plains Railway Company have refused the offer of the Government to purchase the line, on the ground that the offer would result in loss to the shareholders. The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce call on Government to direct the AgentGeneral’s attention to the misrepresentations of the Otago Wool Growers’ Company’s prospectus, as likely to bring discredit on the conimercial integrity of the colony. The Dunedin Star states that the Woolgrowers’ Company’s prospectus has been withdrawn from the London market. Robert Bathgate, one of the crew lost on the Taiaroa, leaves a wife and six children in Glasgow. The Tuiaroa enquiry has been adjourned till May 3rd.