CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2980, 3 September 1878, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

In the Supreme Court to-day, before Judge Johnston, and a special jury,; the case of Digby v. Digby and another/ being a suit for a divorce on the ground of adultery, was brought by the husband; The parties were married in Victoria in 1865, and afterwards lived in New Zealand. The respondent left her huiband in 1876, and joined Wheatleigh's Dramatic Company in Australia, under the name of Nelly Daly. The adultery took place in Dunedin with a member of that company, and was conclusively proved by witnesses examined. There was no appearance of.either respondent or co-respondent, The jury found for the petitioner without leaving the box, and also found that there was up evidence offered to support the pleas of respondent. . The Court made the usual decree.. .

A statement appears in the Times this morning stigmatising a telegram recently published, that the Christchurch footballers kicked over a pie-stall in Dunedin, as an atrocious libel. The writer says the fact is that several of the Dunedin team started out pretty lively, ready for any mischief,' and that they were accompanied by a couple of Christ-: church footballers, and that the stall got knocked over by the Dunedin men. The owner was so liberally rewarded that he would like his stall knocked over every night on the same conditions. '

George Darrell is expected in Christchurch with some new plays about March next, with an Australian company. ■ The Charitable Aid Board are about to make arrangements with Miss Fidler to give a course of lectures on cookery! to elder girls of the Lytteltou Orphanage. '■■■ The Cheevers Minstrels left for Wellington in the s.s. Wakatipu to-day, after a splendid fortnight's business here. Designs have been called for a new four-storey hotel, which is to be built on the American principle. Mr Wearing, of the Terminus Hotel, is to be the proprietor.