NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[BY TELEfIRAI'II.— I'RESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Railway LeagUt Committee to night it was resolred to telegraph to Messis Holmes and Harper for information as to what 19 going to be done in Parliament as to the West Coast Railway, ns the committee intend to renew the agitation should it bo necessary. Mr Cooper, who was injured in the coach accident with the late Mr Hebden, is dead fiom his injuries. FIELDING, Wednesday. Last night Joseph Maj hew, cordial mimifactuici, was tluown fiom hit bora* on the Awahun roul, and was killed. His neck was bioken hy the fall. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The tender of Mr Ransom, Wellington! has been accepted for the construction of a ne>v Opei a House, tlie w ork to be completed in eight months DUNEDIN, Wednesday. The divorce cisc, Watson v. Wateott and Ciilleapu 1 , co lospondent, was heard to day, in which John Watson asked lor a dissolution of marriage ou the groundf of his wife's adulteiy with the co-ret-pou lent. The petitioner is a shepherd near Oamaru, and Gillespie was working with him, but bring suspected he wa«, disjharged. Some time after Mr« Watson left her husband, and was living in an hotel at Lyttelton with the corea< pondent. A decree was granted,