folk, kl. ■•'..» lady was at that period stated w be seventeen years of age ; but she now states that she was only fifteen years and nine months old, but that she was compelled by the present petitioner to represent herself as seventeen years of age. The lady is the daughter of a Darrister-aVlaw named Innis, and tho petitioner was a farmer in that country. The lady has a reversionary interest in a sum of £2000 at her mother's death. They came to Auckland ,in ISG6, and the petitioner got employment in the Native office, in which he continued to ISGS. Theylivedat Holme Court. Parnoll, and afterwards lodged in the house of a Mrs Burdett, who kept a lodging-house in Bath-street, Parnell. In 1868, the employment in connection with the Native Land" Court oeased, and it became a question how the petitioner was to provide for his wife and family. His means had dwindled away to nothing. Nego tiations were set afoot to purchase the lodging house in Bath-street, and the wife was to keep boarders. The petitioner went to Wangarei to dig gum. The co-respondent is the representative of a firm of gum mer chants. Pwolfe, Sterry and Co., and he believed in the friendship of Barber, who use to shew him the portrait of the lady to whom he was going shortly to be married. He reposed confidence in Barber. Tho petitioner went to Wangarei, and while there a very large amount of correspondence accumu lated. These letters were some of the fragments annexed to the pleidings. From Wangarei, about the year 18G8, the petitioner wrote a letter to his wife, only a portion of which was found and annexed to the pleadings. This letter related to the prices of various articles of merchandise, and at this period nothing appeared to have dis turbed the harmony of married life. Upon his return from Wangarei they lived together, and some time next year (1869) the petitioner proceeded to Shortland. In the years 1869 and 1870 several letters passed between the petitioner, the respondent, and the co respondent. Many of these letters contain reference to "matters of business apart alto gether from any relation to the facts in volved in this suit. In one of these letters the petitioner writes :—"B—tells me that you have promised to make inquiries relative to the oircurastances which I wrote to you of. I wish to ask you whether you have taken any steps in the matter ; if so let me know. I have received communication from your mother. I don't think it i 3 neces sary to write to her just yet." In another the petitioner, shortly after he discovered the relation between respondent and co-res pondent, wrote to his wife.', " The old feeling refuses to allow me to address you by any term than the-dearest by which I have known you. This can't go on —it must cease, or otherwise it may cud in a way that can not be anticipated. The cup of bliss has been tilled to the full—feeling is not the less deep because it is silent. I believe the ties which bind husband and wife are the holiest that can be imagined, and by these I am bound. I cannot feel that the mother of my children is unconcerned for their posi tion, although I know that she must be separated from them and me for ever. You have placed them beyond the pale of your influence. You tell me you will come to me and try to promote my happiness, yet you seem to do all that you can to prevent it. It is useless for you to try to conceal it. You are in a delicate state of health. It will be more acceptable if you can lead a life of quietude. I will do all I can to aid you to carry out such good intentions as you may determine. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that A and D (their children) are well cared for. lam afraid it would do you no good to see them. Still it may be done by your looking at them when they are asleep. It wOuld be useless writing. I shall write to her next mail. Anything I shall say will be prompted by the strictest im partiality. She will perhaps assist you I have no wisb to deprive you of anything, but the children will be entitled to share what ever she will have to give you. But I fear that any persons who should see the children would discern their relation to me. The difficulty lies as much with you. A great wrong has been inflicted which I will bear as philosophically as possible. Time must cure it with its healing influence. Let me know what you think of my propo sition about the children. The peti tioner in a subsequent letter writes : - " I will come after inspection this afternoon. Are you going to the meeting?" Several letters were read in which the petitioner described the benefits to his children of their bein<* placed under the care of Mr. Stephens. "They are better," he says, "than they would have been under the best of mothers.' When the petitioner went to-Sydney it was stated that he had £250 in cash. He had no such amount. He had just £8, and £4 of that he gave his wife. He says in a letter to his wife, then at Seafield View, " Your note reached me this morning, I have no reason to regret having placed the children with Mrs Stephens. I congratulate myself on seeing them comfortable. I never see them but I see a marked improvement. I do not wish to hurt your feelings. If I have health and strength I will be able.to supply them with all they may require. I do not know whether your mother will care to receive a letter. That will depend upon the nature of the contents. Any letter thus sent will reach her. I am sorry for her ill ness I have not retracted my forgiveness. After reading the official documents Mr. Hesketh proceeded to details of the circum stances which gave rise to-the proceedings. In commencing, he said that it might be considered incumbent upon the petitioner only to prove upon the iasnea relating to the alleged adultery of the respondent, and incumbent upon the respondent to prove upon the sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth issues, which referred to the alleged oruelty and adultery on the part of the petitioner. The petitioner did not intend to adhere to that course, but to meet the whole case at the outset. He was prepared to prove the truth of the one set of allegations, and the untruth of the other The parties whom the suit concerned were in a very respectable position of society. They were married in October 1803, at Great Yarmouth,.in Norfolk .They came out to the colony in 1866. Up to that time there had been no issue to the marriage, but after their arrival two "children were born. Shortly after arrival they topk a house in Hobson Park, and the petitioner was fortunate enough to obtain an appointment in the Native Lands Commissioners Office. Ihen ;^.v went to reside at Brighton till October., 1869 Uo to that time no unpleasantness had taken place between the husband and wife ex cept a few outbreaks v; draper. - Beyond that the husband had no reason to uO'bt the honor and fidelity of his wife. ,j In lßrj* j) •» Carpenter was anxious to give up house keeping. She had been. born, and bred a lady, no doubt, and'perhaps objected to the drudgery which housekeeping in the colonies entailed. Mr. Carpenter was quite willing to agree to the arrangement, and having sold part of the furniture they moved the rest and went to the boarding-honse. of Mrs. Burdett, in Parnell. In December, 1869, the work of the Native Lands Commissioner Department was finished, and at tho beginning of the month Mr. Carpenter had an intimation that his senaces VvoumV be .. dispensed witteshortly. Before t^.emiof mouth he was dismissed. While the living, at Mrs. Burdett» the V <ispondent came and. lived there, but rs -fed an entirely separate part oi tjw

house, the result of which was they saw very little of him. Mr. Carpenter had at this time nothing to do. Like many others he had invested what cash he had in scrip at the Thames, and that now was unsaleable. He heard that the scrip was more readily marketable in Sydney and he formed a plan going there to get rid of it. He told his wife, and she agreed Avith it. On 15th January, .1871, Mr. Carpenter went to Sydney, taking his eldest child with him At this time Mr, Carpenter's portion was a very poor one. He only possessed £8 in cash. He had given Mrs. Carpenter £4, intending to return by the next mail steamer. Up to this period Mr. Carpenter hatl only spoken to Mr. Baber once, and was not aware that Mrs. Carpenter knew him at all. Well, he found he could not return by the next steamer, and, remembering that he had only left £4 with his wife, he wrote by the steamer he had intended to return by to Mr. Chamber lain to give Mrs. Carpenter a cheque for £10, which he did. Mr. Carpenter returned at the end of March, IS7I. Meantime two or throe letters struck him as being cold, On the passage twenty-eight days were occupied. He found Mrs. Carpenter still living at Mrs. Burdett's, and directly the first opportunity presented itself he asked for an explanation of the coldness he had noticed in the letters. To render what followed intelligible Mr. Hesketh here expleined that previous to the marriage of petitioner and respondent an intimacy had existed between the respondent and a gentleman since ordained, the Rev. 0, Ogg. Now when petitioner was staying in Sydney he had seen in the papers the announcement of a wedding solemnised by the Rev. 0. Ogg. In answer to his enquiries Mr. Chamberlain returned answer, "Since you've- been away I've seen some one." Putting all things together the petitioner had concluded that the Rev. Mr. Ogg was the person referred to, and said so. She admitted it was, and confessed that she loved him, at the time using the expression — "So help m< God, I have done nothing to disgrace my children." They still conversed on the subject, and Mrs. Carpenter contrasted her position of want with that She would have occupied had she married her former lover. She told Mr. Carpenter that she had received the cheque for £10, and that Mr. Barber had cashed it, being the only gentleman in the house to whom she could apply for the purpose. This was, so far as Mr. Carpenter knew the first time Mrs. Carpenter had spoken to Mr. Barber. Two days after this Mrs. Carpenter told the petitioner that Mr. Ogg had returned in the Wonga Wonga to Sydney. Mr. Carpenter about this time met Mr Barber, and thanked him for cashing the cheque, and an intimacy was begun which ripened into friendship. He liked the man for his unselfish conduct in maintaining his mother and sister, and also for his constancy to a young lady of the name of Moore, whose portrait he hail in his bedroom, where his eyes could rest upon it the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning. Mrs. Carpenter, finding that her husband had not made the Sydney trip pay, resolved to startaboarding-house her self. She had already told him more than once that she hated him, andthatshe did not wish to depend upon him for her support. Acting upon this idea of a boarding-house Huluie Court was taken and fitted up, and the petitioner, respondent, and co-respondent all went to live there. Now something was said in the fuller particulars about a bolt. It was a very small thing, and very immaterial, but he believed that a great was going to be attempted to be made out of it by the other side. It was said that Mrs. Carpenter and Mr. Barber occupied adjoining apartments, while Mr. Carpenter slept oil the other side of the house with a passage between, having a door in the middle which was fastened by a bolt. Now the fact was that Mrs. Carpenter was very timid of burglars, and always had a loaded revolver close handy at night; Mr. Carpenter was also apprehensive of "the same invaders. The bolt had been suggested to keep intruders out. The boTt was put on, and was put on before he went to Wangarei. Mr. Carpenter had laughed at tho bolt, it was such a small one. For some time'Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter lived at Huhne Court, but although they occupied the same room and same bod no matrimonial intercourse took place between them. This continued from shortly after the return of petitioner from Sydney and the departure to Wangarei. The cause of this cessation of connubial intercourse was the admission Mrs. Carpenter had made in reference to Mr. Ogg. Mr. Carpenter all this: time was without employment, Of course a coldness was apparent between him and Mrs. Carpenter, and to explain it Mr. Carpenter had partially related the facts to Mr. Barber. Something had to be done, and the petitioner consulted Mr. Barber about the gum trade, that gentleman being connected with that branch of commerce. He resolved to go to "Wangarei and dig gum. He went in June, IS7O, and while there received a great many letters from Mrs. Carpenter. They would help to shew the condition of affairs between the parties. The first letter read was without a date, except the word '' Wangarei." It contained several remarkable expressions, amongst which we select the following ;—" Ido hope it will not be long before you are back. I wish I had been more successful" [this had reference to the boarding-house scheme]. "Why did you choose such an erratic girl as I am ? I should like to see you happy with a good woman. Love the children. I know they will live to curse me. Would I had died before this happened. Good-bye, and forgive me." Another was dated June 6, 1870, and ran in a similar vein :—"My dear William,—l hope you are more prosperous. lam myself very low-spirited. Without wishing to distress you I am unable to write in a cheerful manner. No applications have been made to me for lodgings. I have sent cards out but have had no answers. Barber's friends will not come. * * If you want to marry a»ain I will help you in any way you like to get a divorce. Do not think I have held any communication with that gentleman since his leaving I have net; but my heart has gone with him. Do not show yourself here in case of summonses. Barber took me out for a walk yesterday. * * lam so ill. I do not wonder men drink to drown care. Don't you think you could get employment in Sydney. I could easily get a situation as housekeeper. * * Is there no.rest, for me in this world ? I don't know how to bear it. Your absence does not distress me, but your discomfort,does. Oh, if I could only die! The petitioner wrote a reply to this, in which ho said that she was still harping on " the streets," and the "absent one." If she cared as much for him as she professed to do,-she might writo to him on that subject only : She said she had had no communica tion with him since. He did not suppose she would do so, as her sense of honour would keep her from it. If he brought the deed and she accompanied him, it might be settled in half-an-hour. He would have a witness there all ready. Mr Hesketh said ho would call attention to the term "absent one," which must have re ferred to Charles Ogg. It could not be Barber, for he was then-living inthehousewitk>. Mrs Carpenter. All along Mr Carpenter was led to believe that it was Charles Ogg with whom his wife had committed herself, and he never for one moment suspected the co-respondent. At this time Mr Carpenter wa> in a position very distasteful to him. He was then working up to the middle in waiter

in a swamp. And such a letter coming at that time was nob likely to bo well received. He might explain that the letter of the re spondent referred to a proposal that £2,000, which she bedieved was coming to her at her mother's death, should be paid to tho peti tioner by Ogg, w! o should thereupon sign an agreement lelinquishing all claim upon the money under the mother's will, and should allow Ogg and tho co-respondent to live to gether unmolested. Mr Carpenter, wher. examined, would state to tho jury that he w-is so enraged at a proposal to sell his wife being suom tted to him that he really con templated killing them both when they brought the agreement for him to sign. The next letter from respondent to her husband referred to her success in keeping the boarding-house. She said she had three lodgers. She said she owed them all to Wisbottom. (Counsel ex plained that this was a nickname taken from Sketches by Boz, applied to Mr Barber as the single lodger). The letter proceeded to say that Wis had been very kind, He had straightened up Mr Miller's room, and brought in wood for hot-, She hoped his great kindness would not be misinterpreted, not her liking for him. Tho rest of the letter referred to a bill of sale which had been drawn up to prevent Carpenter's creditors from,.seizing the furni ture, and which she recommended should be given to Mr Barber as a mutual friend. The writer again referred to her affection for some one away. "'1 hank heaven," she said, " I know if things failed I have miles away from here a good home. If my boy failed me I should go on the streets. I will never sloep with you again. Never, never, never. 1 know you hate me because I love him, and you might want to kill him." She continued in a passionate strain, that she wished tho chil dren had never been born, and urged hor husband to wean his affections for her. She had lived a long time in the hope that she might yet love him, but she now felt that to be useless. She must have excitement, adventure, and freedom. She had reason to believe she would go to Madras, and thought she would change her name. She should, at any rate, leave New Zealand. '<D__ n this," she continued, "I should like to show the Chamberlains and the people of Parnell that I don't care a curse for them." He suggested that their things should be divided when she went away. Her lodgers had said they never would have come so far from town if they had not been tfken by storm. She could have got a lot, but refused. One person had offered her £4 a week, and pressed very hard to be allowed to come, but his eye htrayed what was to pay for it, and she would not accept him. "So you see," she continued, "if I look twenty-four, as you say I do, I could be in great demand." Tho letter proceeded to say that she would not bind herself to any one—that would only be chaugiiig bondage. She would not do any thing like that until her husband was gone, as she wanted to save talk. A subsequent letter from respondent to her husband said she had seen Mrs Chamberlain, who said Mr Chamberlain was so enraged at the mines turning out bad that he would not do anything for Mr Carpenter. "Mn C," she continued, '• wants to drop my acquaintance because I keep a boarding house. She also says it is not right that I should bo living alone in the house with Mi- Barber, is it not absurd." She had not mentioned this to Mr Barber because it was such a thins; to say, but he must have seen she was annoyed. The letter proceeded to make allusion to a proposal that Mr Carpen ter should go to Canterbury, and said that she could not keep Carpenter out of tho little she was earning. She could have done better if she had been single. Mr Hesketh said this was the last letter the petitioner re ceived at Whangarei, and the jury might suppose from the tenor of the correspondence that when he returned to town, as he shortly did, he believed that Mrs Carpenter's affec tions were given, not to the respondent, but to some one else, or in reality to Ogg. He pre sided at the dinner table, and, as he expected, found that his wife was quite unlit to keep a boarding-house, and that things were not conducted 0 as gentlemen would reasonably expect. The children also were neglected. He saw bis wife afterwards, and urged her to go into a small house and live with him quietly, but this she refused to do. Before going to Whangarei he had told Barber as a Mend of his wife's attachment for some one away, and requested him to look after her. This Barber had agreed to do, and they shook hands cordially at parting on the wharf. He did not for one moment suspect that he had betrayed his confidence. Again he was un successful in seeking employment in Auck land, and it was suggested that he should go to the Thames. He urged his wife to go -with him, and keep house for himself and children, but she persistenly refused to do so. He was also informed that Mr Barber was going to leave lodgings and set up house keeping, and wished Mrs Carpenter to go and keep house for him. He strenuously opposed this, insisting that she should go with him to the Thames. Ultimately Mr Carpenter had only three alternatives left; either to let her go on the streets, to keep house for Mr Barber, or to keep house for strangers. Esteeming Mr. Barber as a friend, he resolved allowing her to keep house for him, and in consequence of this arrangement part of the boarding house furniture was removed to Mr. Bar ber's house, and Mr. Carpenter, when ho come up from the Thames, went to the house and stayed there a night, but neither saw nor suspected anything wrong. Mr Bar ber slept in his own room—Mrs Carpenter slept in hers, and the petitioner on the sofa. After the return of the petitioner to the Thames more correspondence passed between he and his wife. In one letter she says :" I would soonerg be hanged than live in a den with you," and dilated on the want of freedom of action, the domestic broils, and lack of money. In another letter she said "I think much of you and the children. I think H. P. B.s girl is playing Old Harry with him. When down town I saw Chamberlain, who had a look of ' Touch me not' about him. After he passed I thought 'Don't be afraid, old boy.' I was with Wilson at the time." She pro ceeded to speak of the many friends she had met. In another letter the respondent said " I wish the ship had gone down that brought me here. I am not so good now as I was then.; Strong passions rend my breast. Yet at times two little pictures call me back to my old self." The letter expressed a hope that he might prosper, and said that if they had been better off things might have been different with them. In another letter the respondent said she had made up her mindj to go away. Those men who wanted to take possession of her she always had a great repugnance to. She had not heard from Charles Ogg since, and what ever he might be he had behaved in a sneaking way towards her. She concluded by stating that if he tried to thwart her from going, he should never \ hear from her again.' In consequence of this letter Mr Carpenter came up from the Thames, and saw her, and used all the efforts he could do to induce her tof orsakeher intention,and lead a quiet life with him and her children. She went away to Sydney without warning and without his knowledge—the fact of her having left being communicated to Mr Carpenter by a friend who saw her on board; 1 All this t-ime the " absent one" had

been so paraded before the petitioner, aided by the deception of Mr Barber, that Mr Carpenter never suspected that there was any improper intimacy between his wife and the co-respondent. He believed Mr Barber to be an honourable man. fa consequence of her action in leaving, Mr Carpenter for the first time now wrote a full account of tho affair to his wife's mother, and received a reply from that lady enclosing let ters from Ogg, which proved conclusively that he had never left England, and there fore that the petitioner must have been deceived throughout by his wife regarding the name of the man with whom she had. had improper intimacy. He thereupon wi"ote to Mr Barber Inquiring if he knew Mrs Carpenter's address, and seating that he had l-eceived important lottei s from home for her. Some time after this he received a letter from the respondent in Sydney stating that she had two or three places open. She might go and keep house for some squatters or proceed with a theatrical troupe. She thought she would follow the latter course, as it placed her in a line she liked. There wore no more scoldings and no more Mrs. Chamberlin's to look down on her. She intended to write to H. P. B. by that mail. Shehad never meta kinder gentleman, and would go a thousand miles o serve him. After this Mr. Carpenter heard nothing of hi.-* wife for some months, until one day he was called to see a lady in his oilice at Grahamstovvn, and on going out found hi 3 wifo deeply veiled. He asked her how she came there, and where she was staying ? She replied that she had no home. He procured lodgings for her, but slept at his own house He had several interviews with her afterwards, told her of tho letters he had received from her mother, and pressed her about the identity of C. O. She replied after some hesitation that it was a gentleman who had drunk champagne out of the same glass as her at the (ioveruor's ball. Subsequently on being further pressed she said it was Charles Clay, with whom she had been living as mistress in Australia. Mr Carpenter had when she first entered his office perhaps cntertainel some lleeting idea that she might yet settle down ouietly at home; but on hearing of her intimacy! with Clay he told her positively that j they could never live together again. She j earnestly begged forgiveness in the most I abject way, offering to live anywhere with him if only he would take her back as his j wife, but he steadily refused, telling her he forgave, but she could never again occupy the position she had forsaken. It was | determined that she should proceed to Auck- j land, and a day or two before she left she told Mr. Carpenter that Mr. Barber was the man she had referred to throughout. Mr. Carpenter did kiss her when he told her that she was deserving of sympathy and pity, but he could never take her back as his wife. He said he would allow her one - third of his income that she might live quietly and respectably in Auckland, reserving one-third . for himself, and the rest for their children. ' She refused to accept anything from him. ! She asked to see the children, but he told her that they had been taught to believe that they had no mother, and lie did not want to unsettle their minds. He, however, agreed to let her see them when asleep at night, and this she did in the petitioner's company. What took place at that inter view Mr Hesketh said he would leave the jury to judge for themselves. He said the defence proposed to lay some stress on a telegram sent to Mr Barber, asking him to meet the respondent on her arrival in Auck land. Mr Carpenter was remembered ac companying his wife to the telegraph office, but he could not say whether he or she wrote the telegram that was sent. It was, however, prior to his having been told that Barber had ever had criminal intercourse with her. The learned counsel then read a clever letter written by M rs Carpenter from Auckland evidently at some one's dictation, putting a suppositious case in the event of her husband taking proceedings for divorce, and shewing that any jury would give'the case against him for allowing her to fall under temptation, and for being a quiet witness of improprieties which must have come under his notice. She urged him to get a divorce on the ground of her adultery with Clay, or in some other way not implicating Barber. This letter was not answered, and she wrote another chiding him, and hoping he would not "arouse the fiend in her." Again no reply was sent, andauotherletter was received by Mr Carpenter from the respondent saying that if he took action against her lover she would be bound to side with him. The letter proceeded to say that he would marry her, but would not submit to be forced. He would keep her as mistress. The lotter dilated at length on the advantages of being kept over marriage, and expressed very free opinions of the general prevalence of immorality among the married men of Auckland. "Not more than five per cent ," she wrote, "of the women of the] colonies act time to their husbands. Have you never noticed how lew fami lies there are with a decent resem blance to their father V ■ She begged pitoously that he would not expose her lover, but would divorce her on account of Clay.— Mr. Hesketh said it was in May, 1873, that Mr. Carpenter heard for the first time that the respondent had again cohabited with Barber, and had given (birth to a male child. He then came to Auckland and consulted a solicitor in consequence of which proceedings in the present action were taken. He was staying at 'the Auckland Hotel, and while there he received an interview from Mrs Carpenter. After some conversation he asked her if it was not true that she hod given birth to a child, and she, as if over come with shame, confessed in a low tone that it was true. She admitted that her visit and stay at the Thames and the A. B. C. , letter subsequently written to him from Auckland were intended as a trap in the hope that he would reply, and commit him self to conniving and condoning her offence, and so debar himself, of any action. She wanted to close the door of the room in the hotel where they were sitting, but the respondent refused to allow her to do so. He kept the door open, and told her in a few words that he was determined to go on with the present action, and that the could have no more communication with her.

Mr Hesketh commented on the corre spondence at some length, and concluded his speech for the petitioner at a quarter to three o'clock. . The first witness called was Fanny Leckie, who deposed :I am a monthly nurse, and knew Mr and Mrs Carpenter. Mrs Carpen ter sent for me in February, I§6B, to attend her in Brighton in her confinement. I went and saw her, but could not attend on account of other engagements. Some time after Mr Carpenter asked me to go and see his wife, I saw her, and found her suffering from bad breast, the result of bad confinement. I often met Mr and Mrs Carpenter after, and we always spoke. I always asked after, his wife. He always spoke kindly of his wife. I saw nothing to lead me to believe that there was any uuhappiness between them. I recollect Dr Goldsboro' speaking to me about attending a lady in Alten Road ; it was about the beginning of last year. He told me .it was a person who used to live near to me in Parnell, he described her as a little woman, wearing her hair down. I said, "Oh, that is Mrs Carpenter," He replied, "You mutt

go to the lait house in Alten-road, and ask for Mrs Barber." I went accordingly and saw the lady I knew 'as Mrs Carpenter. I made arrangements to nurse her inker confinement. I went in February, she was then confined with a son, in the name of Mrs. Barber. I addressed her as Mrs. Barber. I was pre ent at the confinement. I remained in the house six weeks all but two days. I saw Mr. Barber constantly, moreing and evening. He passed as Mrs. Barker's hus band, but did not take his meals in the house. He slept in the house, on the same landing. He used to sit in Mrs Barber's bedroom until she went to bed. I washed the baby regularly in the bedroom.

Second Edition.

About three weeks after she had been there there was a disagreement between Mr. and Mrs. Barber about the name of the child, Mrs. Barber wanted to call the child by Mr. Barber's full name—Harland Page Barber, j but he objected. They did not come to very | high words over it. He proposed to | allow her so much a year or week for '. the support of herself and child. Ho wished to take the child from her and put it out, She objected, and said that having the child wa3 the only claw she _ had upon Mr Barber. This was three weeks after the birth. After that Mr Barber ceased to come to the house, nor did he return dur- ' ing the remaining three weeks. I was there. ! During the six weeks I was there I had numerous conversations with Mrs Barber. She told me that she bad left her husband on account of his unkind treatment, and she had made up her mind to live with Barber from the day she saw him. She did not explain how her husband had been unkind to her. Mrs Barber paid me while Mr Barber was in the house. After he left Mr Barber paid me. 1 called upon him at his lodgings in Parnell. i She told me that when she was lodging at Mrs Burdett's, she went into Mr Barber's bedroom while he was asleep. I For the purpose of deceiving him she took off her rinic. He turned round in a restless way, as if he did not know whether there ' was any body there or not, and then turned j i back again. lie turned round and caught I hold of her hand, making use of some cx i pression like "Is that you you little wretch?" I IHe advised her to go back to her room J I With that she sprang into bed with him. | I told Mr Barber that Mrs Barber had told ' jme this. He said it was quite true. I told i him at the same time that she had said Carpenter was unkind to her. He said it was her own dredful temper. She never charged her hushand with'having gone with other women, tnd having any disease. . Did not see anything of Mr Barber when I first called in the Alten-road. I saw him oace. He was lying on the sofa reading, but he went out of the room as I came in. When I I first knew Mr and Mrs Carpenter at Brighton they were living together as man 1 unci wife. Mrs Carpenter and Mrs Baber | were also when I knew them in Alten-road living as man and wife. | Charles Field Goldsbro, M.D., depose 1: I j have resided in Parnell for 13 year 3. I have ! only spoken once to Mr Carpenter in the last I twelve months. I remember them liring ! close to my house in Parnell some years ago. It was next door but one to Mrs Burdett's. I first knew Mrs Carpenter as a patient in July, 1872. She was then living in Seafield View, Grafton Road, under i the name of Mrs Clifton. Mr [Barber requested me to attend her there. I after ' wards attended her in the Alten Road prior to, and a month after, the birth of her child. She passed as Mrs. Barber in the Alten Boad. On one occasion, a Sunday morning, when calling on Mrs, Clifton. I saw Mr Barber. I . knew the position in which the parties stood to one another. Mr Barber has paid my , professional charges. I understood that he i was the father of the child. j Mary Coyle deposed she was the widow of Patrick Coyle. She recollected seeing an advertisement for a working housekeeper in the Star. She applied for the situation at the last house on the Alten Road. The perrson she saw was a Mrs Barber. She continued in service there for seventeen days. Mrs Barber told her that Mr Barber was a gum merchant and repre i sented the American Consul. She said | she was ten months out of Melbourne. Mr I Barber usually came home about eight j o'clock in the evening, and went away same time in tho morning. He and Mrs Barber slept in the same bedroom. Witness usually took charge of the baby at night. Used to take the child up in the morning, and on those occasions saw Mr and Mrs Barber in bed together. Thoy appeared to Ibe living together as man and wife. Mr Barber always called the child his sonny. After witness left Mrs. Barber's Mr. Car penter called to see me. About a week after Carpenter called, Mrs Barber sent for witness, and she went to her. Mrs. Barber opened the door and witness said " This is a nice piece of business." Mrs. Barber said she knew Mr Carpenter had been to see wit ness, and she knew all about it. She asked witness what she had told Mr Carpenter. Witness replied she had told the truth, that they had occupied the same bed. Mrs Barber said it was done now, and could not be helped. She also said that nothing had taken place between her and Barber until Carpenter had returned from Sydney. Hannah Sampson said she recollected in October 1872, seeing an advertisement for a servant. She applied, and was sent to Alton Road. She saw some one there whom she addressed as Mrs Clifton. She saw nothing then but afterwards, when she went to take the place, Mrs Clifton told her to call her Mrs Barber. Mr Barber used to come regularly and sleep } there. There were two bed-rooms, but only one bed. Mr Barber slept in the room where the bed was, so did Mrs Barber. Witness made the bed. She had no doubt the two slept together. _^

THE EVENING WEDNESDAY, JANTTATt? 21,1S?I



I '■ i "ITTANTED, three or four good ' Carpenters for Bridge work.-Apply at tho • United States Dining Rooms, to-morrow, at twelve ' o'clock. XT'" ANTED to Bent, a good six- V \ roomed House within ten minutes' walk of Quec:.-..ueot.-Apply Thames Hotel, Queer-street. WANTED, a General Servant for a small family.—Apply to Mr Watts, Chemist, Upper Symonds street. WANTED to sell 124 gallons of Liraejuice, 8s Od per gallon, Od and 7d per bottle the best summer drink for children ; 2500 Cocoaiiuts, Is Od per dozen, lis per 100; Champion's Vine»ar 3s per gallon, 9d per bottle ; 300 dozen of Oranges, Is 4d per dozen; Harper Twelvetree's Wash ing Powders, only Cd per dozen ; 9 sacks of Peanuts, 5d per lb by the sack ; 10 sacks of Ship Biscuits, Slbs for Is, 10s per bag of lOOlbs. 110 acres of Land at Wangarei for LIS, a bargain.—Apply to H. WATT, General Dealer, Pitt street. m _gt WANTED, Apprentices to the Dressmaking.—Apply after 0 p m to Miss Lockwood, Milliner and Dressmaker. Wakefield street (opposite Mr Cucksey's). WANTED, a Nursemaid.—Apply to Mrs Johnstone, Alten Road. WANTED, a strong useful Boy at Hayward's Bedding Warehouse, Wjn lU&m street; or, Pitt sjtreet (top of Grey street),



WAINTED, an Express.—Apply to Collins, Grocer, Upper Symonds street. WANTED, a respectable General Servant.-Apply to Mrs Shayle ueorge, Clifton House, AlUn Koad. WANTED, a good Milliner and Dressmaker for Coromandel. Must be com petent to take charge of a Work-room.-Apply for particulars to Mr Bullock (Owen & Graham s), Queen street Wharf. WANTED, two good Servants. One re quired to milk. Good wages given. —„pply to Mrs Mowbray, Whitby House Parnell. WANTED, a" Junior Draper's Assistant for tho Country.—Apply to S. and J. B. Vaile. WANTED, a strong Girl to assist in hosuework ; also, a Nurse Girl.—Apply to this oilice. T~O CAKPKNTKbfccv -Wanted a Ciuple of Hands.-Apply to C. Goodwin, j Triangle, Otahubu. J WANTED to Sell, Cheap, Crab Winches, double and single purchase. Eagle Foundry, JJlgh street.—J Kelly. WANTED, a strong active Lad to Deliver Goods and work in store.—Apply to If. F. Anderson & Co. WANTED, agood Cook; references required. -Apply to Mr Wardrap, Wynyaid street. , aNTEL), a respectable General Servant with good referenre*. Wages, liberal—Apply for address to Stau cilice. WANTED, agood General Servant, references required. — Apply to Mrs Hancock, fourth house past Junction Hotel, on Epsom Koad. WANTED, to Purchase Railway Sleepers for the Auckland and Waikato Railway. The highest pricegivoa.—Apply t3 Archard and Urown, Mechanics' Hay. WANTS D, Several Swarms of strong young Bees must have come, two m les from Mount Eden.— Apply T. A. Hicks, Mount Eden- WANTED, a Man and Wife for an Ho: el at Itussell, .Bay of Islands. The ' man to act a=i Cook, and wife as ChambermaiJ, 4 c. — Apply immediately to L. D. Nathan &■ Co. aIs'T^JTKNO W N .—The under signed have always on hand a large supply o Newcastle and Bay of Islands Coal ; also, best Cv and Uncut Wood. Yards : Between Fort and Custom house street, next Isaacs' Bonded Store. W. &. G. WINSTONE. THE Auckland College will Ec-open on MONDAY next, January 20 HEY. W. TAYLOB, Principal. I. O. G. T. PONSONBY LODGE. A PUBLIC MEETING will be held on Wednesday Evening next, in the AU Saints' School-roQm, Ponsonby ltoad, to advocate the clain.sof Good Teraplary _ Addresses will be delivered by various friends. Music t>y the Choir. Chair to be taken at 7.50 p in. CHAS. E. FORDER, W.S. HHO LET, a Cottage of Seven rooms, X in Alton Koad—App!y to Jno. Klrkwood. 1 S Gd per dozen given for Champagne A Schnapps, and S^rsaparilla Bottles.—3, Queen street. N 0 T I C E. IN accordance with the 27th Clause of the Licensing Act, 1871, I hereby give notice that I Intend to apply to the Tetty Se sions Court, Auckland, for a Transfer of my License of the Pacific Hotel. Auckland, to James Glekson. of Au kland. . MATTHEW NOLAN. * Auckland, January 19, 1374. , , J THE UNION STEAM SAW, MOULDING, SASH AND DOOR COMPANY (LIMITED). NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. RApplicitions for Shares (new issue) cannot he re ceived after FJIIDAY ntxt, the 23nl instant. E. WaYMOUTH, Secretary. Auckland, January 20, 1574. .' TO LET, a nine-roomed House ; harbour frontage, bathing, and. one acre of land ; 15 minutes' walk fiom.Union Bank.-Apply to W. Aitkin, Land Agent ANOTHER Live Turtle on view at the Occidental Hotel, per Star of the South. WANTED, two Girls for the Tailor ing Business. — Apply to Mark Simpson, Tailor, Victoria street. WANTED, a Servant Girl.— Apply to Mr George, Grocer, Parnell. WANTED, two Boys.—Apply immediately to G. Gledhill, Wellesley ; street. WANTED, a General Servant; good wages given. —Apply for address, Stai. office. • . WANTED, a General Servant.— Apply Mrs Loutit, Grey-street. ' WANTED immediately, a good General Servant.—Apply Mrs Bar,lis, Remuera. WANTED, a good Machinist to 01. se Uppers. &o —lreland Bros. A~N TED, an active elderly Person to make himself generally useful. A. teidy obliging man will find a comfortable home- Apply to Bey. W. Taylor. Auckland College. WANTED, by a Gentleman, a Bedroom, furnished or unfurnished, with partial board. Suburbs preferred.—Address F.S.P., Stab, office. W WANTED, a Girl" about U or 15 ! to aosht with housework.—Apply to Mrs South, | Ferry Hotel, Woodside, late Stokes' Point. X^TANTED, a respectable Lad as VV j Apprentice to the Bakery and Confectionery Business.— Apply C. Burton. Parnell Bakery. WANTED, a first-rate Cook for an I Hotel at Wanganui ; must be sober. -Apply , on board the Go-ahead, Manukau Wharf, to-morrow . morning. . .. ■ '. "'_ ■ ■ a General Servant.— VV I Apply to Mrs Newton, Grey street. > - •ANTED, a respectable Girl about I 10 or 17 to assist at housework. —Apply for address'at Stab office. f '. W [ANTED; a Cook -highest wages 1 given.— Apply immediately at the Occidental 1 Hotel. I .'"'".. WANTED, a General Servant.— I Apply Mrs Captain Ellis, top of Hobson street. i '" "■'";,", '.■ ■: >(■:. W [ANTED, two Men to put a ■ Drive in a well.—Apply at onca to 0. Hawkos ' " weod, StaffordßJifrg Jioa Wo#, Hol«on street,



piiINCE OF WALES THEATER THIS (Wednesday) EVENING, JAN. 21, And during the week. IMMENSE SUCCESS OP THE PANTOMIME, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BCILT," With New Scenery and Effects by Mr Williams, New Costumes, Ac. MARCH OF THE LILLIPUTIAN ARMY, By a Host of Juvsniles. NOTICE. — Afternoon Performance of the PANTOMIME on SATURDAY, at 2 o'clock, for the convenience of Families and Children. Children half-price to all parts of the house. LOST, on Friday evening, in YVyndhara-straet, a Green Ba'zo B g, curtain ing School Books.—The tinder will oblige by leaving the same at the Star office. HS NOKMAN'S Pupils will'Mfe assemble en Tuesday, January 2u, 1J.74 . Waterloo Quadrant. ■J^OTICETO SPECIAL JUEORS. Cases will be taken as follows, viz. : Bank of New South WiJes v. Rogers, on Fri lay, 23rd instant. ~«. ■ . . Webb v. Graham, on Monday, 26th instant Graham v. Thomas, on Wed. esUay, 23th insiant. Hornev. Graham (not required to attend without further notice). _ BALNEAVIP, fcl.eriff. " Auckland, January 20, 187-t. 515 CASES MELSON APPLES. 12 CASKS NELSON BUTTER. B. TONKS & CO. WILL sell, To-morrow ('] h irsd; y) at 11 o'clock sharp, 12 casks Al Nelson Butter 5(1 cases Nelson Apples. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. YACHT MORNING STAR, 7 TONS. B. TONKS & CO. WILL sell on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 12 o'clock, " Yacht MORNING STAB, 7 tens, in good order 2 suits Sails (1 Suit just tent), New Gear, 4c, complete. Alongside Fish-shed T, Queen-street Wha -f. at 12 o'clock. TO-MORROW, 10 O'CLOCK AM. > > APPLES! APPLES! T> EX LADYBIRD, FROM NELSON. A iy TO BE SOLD B? AUCTION, SO casc3 of Nelson App'cs. R. ARTH UR, * : ... Auctioneer. ■■ TO-iviOßltOW, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, AT HALF PAST ELEVEN. NAILS, PL.4TED-WARE, HARDWARE, GLASSWARE, 4c, &c. E. &H. ISAACS \ HAVE received instructions from the Importers to submit to auction, at their Stor», Foit-street, on Thursday, the 22nd January, at half-past eleven, the following useful Gt ods, ; _ : i 3 packages containing an assortment of the very best Sheffield-plated Ware'in Services, Uot-, r water Jugs and Kettlus, ISutter Cooler^,- •-' ; Cuiets, 'lea Pots, Egg- Frames, Spcots, Forks, 4c., 4c. Also, . ■ . "v;:: v~. .r,. 2 cases second-class Elcjtro-platel Ware (well 6 packages Cut Tumblers and Metal-covered ; Jugs ,; ~,. ,-, 20 cases Axe Handles, Half-axes, Hatchets, Ac. "*-■'■' 6 cases Cutlery in Carvers, Table Knives, Planes, ! Bradawls, Saws, Butchers' Knives, &c, &c. 1 tase Window Cord (assorted colours.) 176 kegs best French Wire Nails, lj, 2, and 2£ inch, ( and sundry other packages off- Furnishing Goods and Hardware. TO-MORROW, . - At Half-past Elevek. ; ' THE Plated Goods to bo offered by auction at the Stores of E and H. Isaacs are found to be more or less slightly damaged, they will therefor* be sold without reserve on aocount of thoie concerned, and arc first-class quality. j THURSDAY, JANUARY 22. AMERICAN BRIGAJSiTINE AUGUSTA. B. TO'NKS & CO. HAVE been instructed by Messrs Henderson & Macfarlane to sell, at, the Brunswick Mart, on Thurtday, at 12 o'clock, The American Briggntlne AUGUSTA, 187 tons register, built at Portland. Oregon, in 1872, sails remarkably fast, Caaries a large cargo on a'very light draught of water, and is.in every respect a first-class vessel for the coasting trade. FRIDAY, JANUARY"^ """" HANDSOME GILT MIRROR, ENGLISH-MADE DRAWING-ROOM • SUITE, WALNUT CHIFFCNNIER/' RIMU SIDEBOARD. .v. V' THE Subscribers will fell at tie Mart, Fort street, on Friday next, 23rd instant, at 11 o'clock, An English-made Walnut Drawing-room Suite, consisting of Couch, two Arm Chairs and six Chairs (upholstered in Green Velvet), Hand a some Gilt Mirror, Walnut Chitfonnier (with Marble Top and Plate-gUss^B.pfirj and Back), Massive Rimu Sideboard, Marble-top Wash j stands, 4c. _ '..'/.' , ~,. SAMUEL COCHRANE & SON, Auctioneers; j . ■ - i - — ;,,- , ■ — ..,..' ,i ! MONDAY> JANUARY 26. ALLOTMENT, GREY STREET. ~ ~ i rflHB Subscrilers will sell, at the A- Land Mart, Fort street, on Monday, 20th inst, • j immediately after the sale of the property adjotoing,.;-" . the Amy and Navy Hotel, ■ • ' -. .; l An Allotment at the foot of Grey street, 30 feet frontage, with the. scoria foundation thereau^ s,: 1"" l *a> joining Mr Beids workshop. J J^MUEL COCHRANE & SOK,. '. \ A^otiqaeers.