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port, the words "£l9 per month" made tie engagement by the month. Mr Rich., mond, for defendant, asked leave to appeal j but the application was refused until the judgment was satisfied. James Kelly, who had been accused of bigamy, has been discharged. A woman who was found under distressing circumstauces in Fort street yesterday, turns out to be the wife of a respectable newspaper employe" at Manchester. She took to drink, and, leaving her huflband and four children, came out by the Dunedin. She has fallen from bad to worse since her arrival in the Colony. While a servaut in a hotel at One hunga, she met Thomson, a labourer, who proposed marriage to her, and was accepted. Sincts this she became worse than ever, a3 she has even sold clothes, both her own and husband's, to buy drink, till she has become homeless and ragged.
In the Bankruptcy Court to-day, Foley, a grocer, had hia certificate suspended for four months. An application, re Friend, clothier, deceased, for his son to be examined on alleged sale of £700, goods by bankrupt, wajj adjourned for a week. "'

At sales of Sfcannus Jones's allotments in Ponsonby to-day, biddings were very dull. Only six out of twenty sold at 263 to 663 per foot.
March 18th.
