DUNEDIN, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1747, 15 September 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN, Last Night.

A lad namul McCarr was di owned in tho ii\cr at Kelso last night. His elder brother, who jumped m after him, was lescueil with difficulty. At the October sitting of the Divorce Com t, an application fjr judicial separation will be heard befoio Mr Justice Williams, under tl'e follow ing peculiar cuciiinstances : — Margaiet L-iverty, the potitiouer, alleges that on August 18th, 1 SSI, she wit, mm ricd to the u-spondent, Chailes Liw-ity, of Uiccnl&liind, farmer, at S. Joseph's Chinch, Ihmedin, by F.ithur Newport. On tlu same day the respondent thieatened to desert her, grossly abused her, nnd offcicd her £100 if she would desert hiii. Thvee days ■iftorwards, uheu the parties wtre luing at Cioyton, her husband piesentcd a loaded gun at her, a>.d, feaii q blcod wuultl be spilt, Laveity's biothei &ei/ced the we.ipon and discharged it. Duiiug riie following night Laverty again tliieatcnod to shoot his wife, who, feaiing that he would carry his threat into execution, iled from his hou^e, partially clothed, through the snow to that of a neighbour. The parties have been living separate &ince. The Collector of Customs has received a telegram from Owake that the schooner Isabella went ashore at the Spit while beiug towed out this morning. The vessel is waterlogged, but the crew were *aved. The retail price of mutton has advanced to fivepence.