DOMINION NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

THE NEW ZEALAND

FAREWELL TO THE DOMINION

AUCKLAND, June 28. The historic visit of the battleship New Zealand to the Dominion came to an end this afternoon at three o'clock, when she sailed for Suva, in continuation- of her voyage round the world. iTis Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool paid the ship the compliment of coming up from Wellington by special train to say good-bye. His Excellency was met at the railway platform by Captain Halsey. The Governor and Lady Live; pool lunched on board with Caotain Hahey, and subsequently went aboard the Defence Department steamer Lady Roberts, which accompanied the battleship down the harbor and round the channel.

There was a large crowd on the wharves round the water-front to see the big ship cast off and go down the harbor. Captain Halsey handled the New Zealand with the same abilitv that excited the admiration of everybody when ha brought the vessel alongside the Queen Street wharf. The .shipping in port made a liberal display of buntng in honor of the departure of the warship, and as she drew away from the wharf each ship dipped her ensign.

The .New Zealand is due at Suva on July l, at Honolulu on July 12, at Vancouver on July 25, and then sails down the coast to Acapulco, Valparaiso, .Monte Video, Rio do Janeiro, Trinidad, and West Indie.;, finally sailing for Home from Bermuda on .November 10. FIT OF A DRESS. A M'AGISTIIATK'S DILEMMA. AUCKLAND, June 28. An amusing dispute, in which MiKettle, S.M., was called upon to decide between a dressmaker and her client as to the fit of a dress, was concluded this morning, the decision going in favor of the dressmaker. Mr Kettle adjourned the case for a fortnight to enable cadi side to met an expert, and to see the dress tried on, but when the experts had given their evidence this morning the court was no nearer a decision than it had been before.

Jas. Fencer, who said that his experience as a tailor had extended from the time he was 13, declared that the dress was a perfect fit. W. A. Bunker, on a basis of 25 years' experience as a ladies' tailor, declared that the dress did not fit at all. Mr Kettle: It's most extraordinary. Hero are two men. One has had 25 vears' experience, and the other has been in the trade since ho was 13, and 'ine says it's no good, while the other says it is first-class. I can't decide. I think it is high time, went on Mr Kittle, with a smile, "that I had two ladies as ■assessors to sit with me to decide these cases. I can decide anything about men's clothing, but with tliti ever-changing fashions in lades' dresses it is impossible. I suggest that some independent expert be called in to see the dress." . Counsel suggested that the head dressmaker of one of the large drapery firms should be called in. "Very. well. I adjourn the court for *n hour," said Mr Kettle. "Both of the parties can go and see the <lad.y, ami I will accept her decision." At the end of the hour the parties came back with the head fitter of Milne; and Ohoyce's establishment, who pronounced that the' dress was a good fit, though! it was somewhat worse for the numerous tryings on. I Mr Kettle saad that; he would give judgment fpr plaintiff for 295, the amount claimed, and 16s costs. "J wish Mies would make use of a private arbitrator ih. these' matters,''' he remarked as the parties left the court,