NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8523, 30 June 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, June 29. In the divorce case, Tutin v Tutin, the wife's petition for divorce, heard t» camera, a rule nisi was granted, with leave to apply to have the rule made absolute at the expiration of three months. The BaUance Committee have decided to close the lists, and to consult the subscribers as to the form the memorial should take. Madame Antoinette Sterling addressed a crowded audience in the Y. M. C. A. of friends and members of the W.C.T.U. and V.M.C.A., on temperance work and social purity. A number of clergy were present. WELLINGTON, June 29. The Manager of the Press Association has written to Mr Cadman, stating that tho manuscript of the message from Napier containing the telegram alleged to have been distorted, has been inspected in the Wellington office, where it has now arrived. Tho message as written was correct, and appears correctly iv the New Zealand Herald, but some one in the telegraph office inserted the word "trust" in the message sent south, making it read instead of " not advisable to put too much ou Seddon," "not advisable to put too much trust in Seddon.' Tne Napier agent of the Association was in no way to blame. The principal modification in the proposed Institute of Accountants is that members who t\re not practising as public accountants are debarred from receiving fees for outside work. It is alao recommended that the Buggested ballot for the firat foundation members should be previously publicly notified by the Councils of the Chambers of Commerce at the four principal centres, and that the three Councils associate some of the public accountants for the purpose of taking such a ballot. Mr Nicholas Lawson, Manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, died rather suddenly at 1.30 this afternoon. He was only ill for two days, but some months ago he had a severe illness, caused by congestion of the liver. He assumed the position in February, 1892, having previously been eight or nine years connected with the Company in Queensland. Mr Hoben, Secretary of the New Zealand Rugby Union, intends to institute an action for libel against the local Manager of the Union Steamship Company and the proprietors of the Evening Press for statements made reflecting on his conduct in connection witb the securing steamer accommodation for the New Zealand football team on their recent - trip to Sydney. Writs will be issued in a few days claiming heayy damages. In the milk case Mr Osborne denied the statements of the men in toto. One of his witnesses said he had never adulterated his milk, and since the strike he had had to throw 170 gallons away. Judgment was reserved. In the Supreme Court to-day a case ia proceeding, in which Hamilton, a brewer, seeks to recover from tho present licensee and a former owner of the Te Aro Hotel the sum of £250 as damages for not taking all colonial beer and stout from him. Two spielers were sent to gaol for three months this morning on a charge of vagrancy. The usual defence was put forth, that they were earning their livelihood by selling cloth, but the Magistrate declared that to be only a blind. The case of Wood v Shaw, Savill and Albion Company occupied Mr Justice Ward and a special jury of four to-day. The plaintiff claimed £350 damages for injuries sustained through being struck while on the Cross wharf by a portion of the tackle being used in moving the Company's barque Lutter. worth. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £25, but leave was reserved for defendant to move for a nonsuit or judgment for the defendant and for a new trial. Mr Justice Ward sits to-morrow for the last time as locum tenens for Mr Justioe Williams. At. the City Police Court an application was made for on infant's committal to tho Industrial School, under these circumstances: —Mrs Kirk, answeriug an advertisement to take charge of a child, was given one by a woman calling herself Mrs Griffiths, but she never returned to pay for the child's keep or provide clothing, while the police were unable to identify her. Mr Carew ordered a warrant to be issued for the mother's arrest. Mrs Mary Mcllroy was charged with illtreating her two children, aged two and a half and four years respectively. The police evidence showed a terrible state of depravity, the mother being addicted to drink and the children being left practically to take care of themselves without any covering. Her husband, who worked at Middlemarch, sent her money, which she spent in drink, and but for the visits of a Salvation Army officer the children must have starved. The prisoner was sent to gaol for fourteen days.