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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3110, 23 January 1889, Page 2

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A Man and His Wue Roasted to Death. Auckland, January 22. A lire occurred at 1 p.m. today at Cambridge. ■ 4 small house in which Henry 'Marshall".and liis jvife.lived Was destroyed, and both occupants were burnt to cinders, The fire was first seen by James Corcoran, who lived near. When lie got there the bodies were roasting. Both the deceased are supposed to have been drinking, A Divorce Case. i CmtiHTCiiUßcii, January 22, .In the divorce case brought by the Rev J. lloatson against his wife, Mr Justice Ward granted a decrie nisi, with costs against the co-respondent, John Wilson Gilpin. Tho evidence showed that while Mr Hoatson was visiting Melbourne, lie ser.t his wife and three children to Governor's Bay, where the intimacy began between Mrs Hoatson and Gilpin, who kept an bote! tliere. On Mr Hoatsoii's return,' Mrs Hoatson went-back to Ohristchnrch, but afterwards returned to Gilpin. Lucky Celestials. Invkroahgilli, Wednesday. Fresh applications aro being made for tin mining claims at ritewart Island, Professor Black makes favorable report on the project to work a sludge channel round the hill near Riverton. Chinamen there now washing up for new year in a claim worked by eight celestials report £BOO pounds taken for ten weeks work, Loss of Another Flaxmill. Wellington Wednesday,: A firo at Wakanae yeKerday destroyed a portion of Gardener's flaxmill, No insurance, MismanagementAuckland, January 22, At a public meeting held to-night tho nmnagemont of the Avondale Lunatic Asylum was condemned in strong terms. The. chief spoakors wero persons who hud been attendants at the institution. 1

A libel Case- . . CuuisTOHUßCit, January 22. In the .butcher's. libel case/ the .plaintiff Hoscwarne swore he purchased 3272 frozen sheep, sound from tho Belfast tire, at lis Gd per carcase, He boiled down .1600,.and sold 673 at ii profit' of 0s 3d each,' He .would have'sold 100(1 more, had not the advertisements issued by the other butchers stoppod his sale. He had supplied joints of the frozen meat to' his regular customers at the prices charged for ordiiiaiy meat. -He esti-mated-his loss through the filing oft' iu" sales at '1i128,. but took no of having .sold-!a. portion of the; meat, at ordinary -, prices, He . had inserted : advertisements in reply to those of the butchers insinuating tliat SQ|)ie of them dealt in the "«ag mag", of the Addington sale, yards.; The jury retired, - and were, out over half an hour before they brought in a verdict of .fiu damages 1 -