LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
The Auckland Tobacco Company. Auckland, Wednesday Night. The Auckland Tobacco Company have issued a pamphlet .on tobacco culture for the use of farmeis.
A Pigeon Club. A pigeon flying club is to be formed here.
Masonry. A Masonic Lodge was dedicated at Helensville yesterday night.
Mr Hemus, the Evangelist. Private letters from America state that G. Hemus, the Evangelist, and formerly boot manufacturer of this city, has been divorced from his wife, a daughter of B. Keane, on the ground of neglect. After the advent of Mrs Hampsen to Auckland Hemus, fired by her influence and example, conceived the idea of consecrating his life to the work of Evangelisation. With this object he sold his business to McArthur and Co., broke up his home, and along with his wife and family took his departure for San Francisco. Since then he has been labouring with more or less success on the Pacific slope, and particularly in the towns of California. No whisper of domestic infelicity appears to have reached New Zealand until news of divorce proceedings came like a thunder clap to cause consternation among the friends of both parties. Had it not been too well substantiated it would have been at once rejected as widely improbable, for Mr and Mrs Hemus were regarded as quite a model couple. He has informed Ins friends here that on his side lie had stronger reasons for favouring the intervention of a divorce court, and in point of fact he allowed the action to be decided against him through default of appearance. Mrs Hemus, therefore secured dissolution of marriage as well as verdict for some £200 damages, while respondent was ordered to provide for the maintenance of four children. Mrs Hemus has now s«ttled down in San Francisco, and is keeping a boardinghouse there.
Eager to demonstrate the possibility of •• living like a lord on 6d a day," the Manchester Vegetarian Society recently gave a penny supper of three courses to 300 persons, including a< pudding ; of mysterious compound and .enigmatical flavour. The supper was a decided' stfc. eeaa,' ./',;• * , ,■ i .-\,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1898, 4 September 1884, Page 2
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352LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1898, 4 September 1884, Page 2
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