SOUThERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 79, 1 April 1908, Page 4

SOUThERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.);. A REMARKABLE M_K__;G_.."' DTJNiEDIN", Tuesday..In the Police Court to-day, Elizabeth MeCaughan, aged 50 years, .sued her husband, aged 21 years, for.the maintenance of tier children. by.;_"_on_er marriage. The- parties had separated afteis three days. The magistrate. (Mr. Wiodowson) said it was'one of. the strangest .cases ever before.the'Coiirt, and he declined to make an order.-The best .thing for the complainant rto do was-to tak» her husband home and J.obk-after : i__. : SHOP AND _ACTOMES ACTJ • DUNEDIN, this day. At the City P6iice.'bnnrt,._lr.,'Wjddowson, S.__, delivered judgment in the case of Dorothy Bernhardt, who had pleaded guilty 'to seven charges under the Shops and Offices Act of employing girls after the hour of 9.30 p.m.on;t_B 11th January (Saturday). 'Defendant was fined £1 on eacK of three charges, ahdconyicted and discharged on the rest' Defendant"'pleaded' not. guilty--to five charges-of employing five after the- hour of one o'clock- on the -.saina day. .In these cases','the'Depar&ent contended 'that -a " breach had through the employment ; of #*factory hand in a shop. The defence was.-that work in the factory was slack, and the girls -were employed in the shqplto avert their non-emplqymerit. r__eigiTls-_nished in. the factory on Saturday} _ndst_rted' ih the shop on the following \ The cases were dismissed. -''i /_. .'"

KTT.T.KD BY A TREE v '1/ GISBCPtNE, Tuesday, A man named Underline was killed ai Arowhana station, Whakatutu, today, by the limb of a 'tree Mailing on hmv Underline only arrived a week ago from Tasmania. TWO-UP RAID.' .' V CHBISTCHURCH, this <day. . The police raided premises, alleged-to contain a two-up school at Islington 'last night. About thirty men. were engaged playing by the light of a lamp., Four police singled out a -man each, _nd ar-- :- rested them. Charges will:..be. laid against others. ,' MSCELIANEOUS ITEMS. - •"•' , CHRISTCHUKCH, ttus day. The births registered in Christclmr<_. during the January to March* quarter numbered .570; in 1907 they, were r SGO. Deaths in the March quarter of 1903.'totalled 191, against 354 in 1907. " Marriages. iiTthe same periods totalled 203 and 274. " • ■_; HASTINGS, this day.' "The Hawkes Bay Amateur Boxing.Association resolved last night to offer 4 • fifty-pound, purse for a light-weight professional contest, to take place ijrj.-a.bout two-months' time. Steps will be taken to tiring the best talent of the Dominion together. ■.":■:.;> GISBOKNE, this day. . The body, of Thomas Rodgere,-who'lost his life recently by drowning near Tiniroto, was recovered by some Maoris near Tereinga Falls, having" been carried about twelve miles. ' ' .