WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3047, 20 November 1878, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day.

Under instructions from the Colonial Secretary, an information will be laid against Geo. Wood, who kept his lunatic .sister under restraint for 20 years. Information will be laid under the 50th section of the Lunatics Act, 1868. '

The Agent-General telegraphs under date 14th : —Ship Taranaki sailed with 293 immigrants'for Fort Chalmers. . ' /

The ship Jessie Headman, from London, arrived this morning after a tedious passage to the Cape of a hundred days altogether. She brings 300 tons of cargo for, the Bluff, 1200 for Wellington, and brings out also a splendid entire horse.

According to public notification from the Secretary of Customs, fencing wire may be landed on payment of a deposit, whioh will be returned subsequently, When the new tariff comes into operation. The notice reads as follows :—*" A* fencing wire cannot be warehoused, the hon. the commissioner authorises you to allow it to be lauded under deposit entry, and afterwards to be cleared by free entry as soon as the exemption in the new tariff becomes operative.—W. Seed." Tuesday. The divorce case of Bailey v. Bailey and McCaxthe (Auckland) came on today. This was a ease for hearing a dissolution of marriage, which was prayed for. A. Whitaker appeared for the petitioner, Christopher Bailey, a dairyman at Auckland. The circumstances of the case, as narrated by petitioner's counsel, were briefly this:—That in 1861 they were married and lived in Auckland for some years; that petitioner suspected his wife's fidelity and illicit connection with the co-respondent, and spoke to her, whereupon she left him, and afterwards kept a boarding-house where McCarthie resided. She then went to Sydney, where she and the co-respondent are now living in Elizabeth street, Bedfern, as man and wife. The respondent having had issue to the co-respondent, a decree nisi was granted.