TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1960, 24 October 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

i Mr George Friend, clerk assistant ihas been appointed to the post oi Plprk of the House of Representatives, recently vacated by Major Cambell. Mr H. Otterson, second clerk-assistant. Isucceeds Mr Friend.

Tenders are now being invited for six bridges on the Otago Central Railway, to be completed in 11 months. (When these are built the rails can be laid as Middlemarch, 40 miles bom the junction with the main south line. The formation could be jompleted, if necessary, in two or three months. Middlemarch is 38 niles from Eweburn, the point prolosed as the terminus by the Premier’s ; Bill last i session.

I Tho Waipapa Creek (Otago) Dredging Company, (Welman dredge), obtained 91oz8 of amalgam for six (lay’s dredging last week, j fire kindlers and ammonia factory in Albert street, Auckland, Which was only purchased a fortnight jigo 'by John Brady, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Owing to the risky nature of the business there was no insurance. } A single woman named Allen committed suicide by drowning herself in the Manawatu River at Poxton on Monday. j At the Wellington Agricultural Association’s show next mouth the Governor offers a medal for the best roadster stallion, foaled in the colony and sound.

In the divorce court, Wellington, on Wednesday, decrees were made absolute in Boutcsh v. Boutsch, Malcolm v. Malcolm, and Brodie v. Brodie. In the case DeLautour v. DeLautour and Lees, the husband’s petition for a divorce bn the ground of adultery, Mr Justice Richmond said that he was satisfied adultery had been committed, but the husband’s conduct had been such that he would take time to consider whether he should grant a decree nisi. A decree nisi was granted in Carlson v. Carlson, iusband’s petition, on the ground of the wife’s adultery. In Dodwell v. Dodwell the decree was made absolute, In Longhurst v. Longhurst, the wife’s petition on the ground of cruelty and adultery, a decree nisi was granted, and the question of alimony was allowed to stand over.

At the Supreine Court, Christchurch, dn Tuesday, Donnolly, the skating rink proprietor, had his bankruptcy discharge suspended for eighteen iponths.