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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 22 June 1918, Page 4

The Weather Bureau forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day is as follows: "Indications are for strong winds to gale, decreasing. The weather will probably prove cold and showery, but improving shortly. The night will probably be very cold. Barometer rising. Sea rough off shore; tides good." To-morrow being the Prince of Wales' 24th birthday, Monday will be observed as a legal and Court holiday. Government offices, banks, and insurance offices will remain open. Reference was made to the 'work of the " Originals" Concert Company at the annual meeting of the Auckland branch of the Navy League last evening. The company, under Miss Ada Burmester, during the time it bad been working had handed in between £200, £300 and £400 to tlie Navy League and Navy Relief Fund. The balance-sheet showed that very small amounts were used in expenses, the greater part of which was advertising and rent of theatres. In a statement published in Waihi, Mr. McCullough, workers' representative on the Arbitration Court, emphatically denies having made any statement to the effect that the "-wires had been pulled" in connection with the Waihi engineers* dispute, and that he " had no other alternative hut to submit." Tlie statement that Mr. McCullough had so written to the organising secretary was made in a circular over the names of the secretary and president of the Waihi branch of the union. Over 300 people assembled at New Lynn last night to farewell two lady teachers from the local school, Miss M. Wilson and Mrs. McGregor, the former leaving to get married, and the latter owing to ill-health. Miss Wilson had been attached to the school*"for 15 years. The evening was most successful, and Mr. Harry Cutler, chairman of the School Committee, presented each lady with a dozen stainless silver steel knives on behalf of the residents. An equally successful gathering took place in the afternoon, when the headmaster, Mr. Ellis, presented a silver tea-kettle to each of the departing teachers on behalf of the scholars and staff. .'..-• j. ~..- -. The Leys Institute winter entertainments have arranged as the third of the series the dramatic reading, "She Stoops to Conquer," to be rendered by the Grafton Shakespeare Club next Thursday evening. This great comedy, first publicly presented in 1776, has lost none of its charm with the passage of time, and though its broad humour and I gushing sentiment' are so i distinctly eighteenth century in tone, the swing, of its I plot and its fidelity to life have ensured it a place among English classics. Miss Ivy Manning will take the -part of Miss Hardcastle, and Mr. T. R. Keesing ."will' represent the evergreen Tony Lumpkin. Some strange circumstances were revealed in an affiliation cafe in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. . The guardian of a child sued a man for maintenance moneys due,, while the man applied for cancellation of the order on the ground that he was not the father of the child, although it was born after their marriage. His Worship said the evidence justified him in , cancelling the maintenance order in respect of the child. Counsel's application that the new order should explicitly state that the present applicant was "not the father" was refused. In law, a man marrying a woman is the father of children born- in wedlock. In another case a mother applied for an order of separation, maintenance and custody of a child against her husband, who was the subject of. a military pension for life. The applicant said, she was not willing to go back to ther husband, whom she accused of drunkenness, unless 1 he provided her with a home. She .objected to living with her mother-in-law, especially when she had no money to pay. her board. The Magistrate, after hearing the parties, decided to give the husband a fortnight in which to provide a home for his wife, otherwise the latter would have the right to proper maintenance, and the custody of .the child. A tribute was paid to the work of the Navy at the meeting of the Auckland 'branch of the Navy League last evening, when a resolution was carried, on the motion of the president (Captain E. J. Thomas), seconded by Mr. C. J. Parr, M.P., conveying to the Navy League, London, the appreciation of the branch of the unswerving work of the " Silent Navy" and its unswerving confidence in the officers and sailors in all branches, as the bulwark of our liberties and the salvation of the Empire. Mr. Parr, in speaking to the motion, said that he looked to the future of the Pacific with some misgivings. There were signs that the storm centre of the world might he transferred from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean was surrounded by people of various colours and ideas, and this diversity would tend to make for conflict in the future. In view of the difficulty in making some nations keep to their bonds he had not much confidence in the permanence of councils of nations. The only security was in preparedness, and to ensure that result the utmost efforts of Navy Leagues -was needed. "Visitors staying at Stonehurst at the present time include Mr. G. S. Withers, Commissioner of Stamps, Wellington;' Mr. and Mrs. J. Bayly, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs. F. Brookfield, and the Misses Brookfield, of Russell; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Jacobs, Wanganui; and Mr. W. Parkinson, of Hawera. I Informations under the War Regulation have been issued by the Crown Law office against the firemen of the steamer | Pateena who left the ship some time ; ago and held it up at Wellington. The men will be charged with taking part in an alleged seditious strike, and the cases will he heard in the Magistrate's Court on Friday next. Advice has been received that the 3Sth mounted reinforcements and the draft of Rarotongans have arrived at a port of call. : The Onehunga Poultry Club holds its ' first annual show in the Public Hall, J Onehunga on Thursday and Friday next.' A large number of entries have been received in both fancy and utility sections, : the latter being a special feature.