THE DUNEDIN DIVORCE CASE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2193, 29 July 1886, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN DIVORCE CASE.

,[BY TKLKGIIAPIL-r-PRESS ASSOTATJO^J Dunkdin, Wednesday. In the divorce suit Mills v. Mills ami Perrier, the evidence taken by commission at Melbourne was handed in ■to the judge, but it was not read. Acts of crirninalty were proved to 'have been committed at Wangarata, Melbourne and Williamatown. The parties went home by the Urient steamer under an assumed name. A detective went on board the same vessel and served them with a citation as they landed in London. Mr Denniston, who appeared in support of the petition, contended there "was nothing sliown to prove collusion, and no reason, in the absence of statutory provision to the contrary, why a decree sbovild not bu gi anted in the absence of the petitioner. The Court took time to consider whet her petitioner's attendance couKt by dispensed with. The petitioner in this case is Jas. Mills, maturing dnectorof the Union »Steamship Company, and the. co-respondent is Fonicr, formerly manager of the Bauk of New Zealand, JDunedin.

"WVdtrprt attention to Mr C. J. W. Barton's tragic .innouncemcnt on the first page. Messrs W.J. Hunter & Co. have received in* ■ ructions from the directors of the &ukuhi.i ' (upse Factory, to sell the whole of the salvage • the late fire, on the sth August, oo the ground . ', Rukuhia. t 'it ' • '