NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 582, 10 August 1909, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

.. IBr.jTelecrrapli.—Pross Association.).-. ; . ■> . TWO ARISTOCRAOIES. • t A-"MAIN-TRUNK" EPISODE. ' 1 i ' Talhape, August 9. Owing to a slip in a cutting, north, of Ohakune, tho Auckland express was delayed i- • fflr threfr hours, ;and the engine being too damaged to proceed, ft special engine was . sent from here. The Governor and Burns, the'ox-champion boxer, are on the train: A ,large-crowd.assembled .to,see. the latter, but he refuged in tho dining-car, with the blinds down, and refused to., answer calk to appear. HUSBAND AND WIFE. ■•••<•.• ■ Auckland, August 9.' At tho Supreme Court to-day Annie Wishart Forrest sought to obtain a tion of her. marriage with 1 David'Forrest on the'ground of desertion.:!; Petitioner said she ■ was a nurse. She married defendant at ~ North Shields, in Durham, in 1884; and had hadffour children. They oame to. New Zealand,about ten years.ago/' 'Her husband.did : no ; work for two years. She tried every way > to get him to work, and eventually took proceedings to fam- ■■■■.' lly,,SSeve r or eight years ago her husband 1 went away/: and; since -then.she badnever, from 'him, and the- solo burden' of keeping • the home'- together fell upon .her; She was granted a decreo nisi. SUPREME COURTSENTENCESI n \ 1 ' Auckland, Auguit 9. ■ . The following.; prisoners who 'hacTpleaded , grnlty in. tta'Xower Court were sentenced :■ >. At'jtie^Supretile'j.Cotift: this (niorning f , . Herbert'Ellison} ,aged' theft • of'-monoy'; ' 'ahd one year's.; 1 ■ imprisonment L^ivith' hir'd 'labour';' 'Alexander J Cameron," fibtaining money by false "pretences/ two years' imprisonment; Alexander Hogg, , ' theft from; a dwelling, eighteen months' im- 1 prisorlment ; lYilliam Dickson,'theft from £ ■ , dwelling, two years' • imprisonment; and J. L. ;Winter, also theft from a dwelling, one DOMESTIC SCIENCE. . _ _ Dunedln, August 9. , At,a meeting,of the University Council . this afternoon it was decided by Bix votes to 1 '; '/four to accept 'the offer of £200 por annum ■' . for, three years, vmado by Mr. John Studholme, for tho establishment of .a .Chair of , , Domejtio Soience at the University. Plans . were made •by the council to l cover arrange- 1 ments for a period of/four ,years, and it wa,s < ' .resolved toaskMr.Sfcudholme t'oiextend the offer for'one year.

FOOD FOR THOUCHT. Masterton, August 9. It has been .reported to the Society for the.^Prevention l of. Cruelty to Animals that some rabbiters skinned a number of '.rabbits. . . alivo and:then let them go'to ,see how far . v. 'theyc.wouldjrim-.irith It; is ■, anticipated that it will, not bo a.. difficult . , '. matter ,to secure sufficient proof to warrant Court proceedings. SLY CROC-SELLING. Auckland, August 9. At the Police Court to-day an elderly wo■!.man, .-inamed;•.■Ellen s /Canall, who keeps. a , lodging-house Streot,- was fined £50 ..for ,;sly . grog-selling..; Richard ■ Fradatavich, who keeps; a lodging-house in Hobson Street, .... was.sentenced-to a' month's* imprisonment for tho-same ; offenco.f'. • .•••. " SETTLED., ■■■•. Auckland, August 9. It, was - announced in the Supremo Court to-day that a settlement had been arrived at in-an. interesting case that had been hated : for hearing, that-of Florence Campbell Smith v. Cecil De Pass, claim for dEIOUO-damages for. alleged breach of .promise of marriage. • • IN HONOUR OF THE CORONATION. Christchurch, August 9. "' H.M.S. ■ Encounter. dressed, ship to-day at Lyttelton, in honour of tho coronation of King Edward VII. At-noon .•:she fired; a royal salute of twenty-one.guns. ; 'FROST AND BNOW. , , Talhape, August 9, .v : .There,iwas.:a.very sharp''frost last night.' and the ranges and high hills • are covered thickly by snow. ■•••'• • - NEWS IN 1 BRIEF. . • , Walpawa, August 9. A sharp shock of earthquake was. felt at a quarter past'seven ; o'clock yesterday morning'. - ~ New Plymouth, August 9. . .vln'.:'.the /Magistrate's* Court this morning on information against E. G. Norton Taylor on. a . charge .of,/obtaining money by falsely , representing himself as authorised to collcct v.."for.'Arthur - Cleave, Auckland, was •iis- •• missed. ' - Cisborno, August 9. . "A new school, opened at Pura to-day, has boen.built to accommodato 40 pupils. ; It-will probably be :found, too-small in a short . period, as 47. children attended to-day.: