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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 302, 23 May 1889, Page 2

I mentioned in my last letter the strange accident which happened to Mrs Walker, who fell through an open port of the R.M.S Cuzco. On the lady’s return from Queenscliff she did not join her husband at the Grand Hotel, but stayed with a sister at the Victoria Coffee Palace. As the pair had not been married six weeks, the arrangement seemed to betoken anything rather than the existence of cordial relations between them. Ou Wednesday last week, Mrs Walker learnt that her husband intended to go to Sydney by the afternoon express. Believing that he Intended to desert her she took out » warrant, and caused him to be arr-eted. Before he was taken into custody, however, ha ex. firessed his willingness to pay his wife £l5O n cash, and to allow her £1 per week, A deed to this effect was drawn un by Messrs Gillott, Snowdon, and Croker, solicitors, but before it was finished, Walker had chansred his wind and refused to sign, stating that he preferred to bo looked up and have his case heard in open court. Ho was bailor! out pending the hearing of the cats. The matter has since been settled by his agreeing to carry out his proposal.—Melbourne eor{ respondent. The barque Mcreope from Wellington has arrived in London.

The charges laid against the three Auckland Volunteers in connection with the Easter encampment affair have been dismissed. A young man named Moray, at New Plymouth, had his neck and hand laoersLd through an accidental discharge ot a gun, An American brigantine has arrived In Sydney with a supply ot 80,000 sacks ct wheat, and a New Zealand barque has reached the same place with a cargo ot UiOOO eaeks,,