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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1907, Page 6

Sitting in divorce in the Supreme Court this morning, Mr. Justice Uutton ' had before him the case Harriet Eliza Adsett v. Thos. Adsetfc, laboured. The giounds of the petitioner were alleged drunkenness and cruelty. His Honour stated that the case was provisionally fixed for this morning on the understanding that it was not defended. Mr. Lsvi stated that the case was being contested, and on the application of Mr. Moran it waß' adjourned sine die. I As the non-inclusion of Colin Gilray, our latest Rhodes scholar, in the Oxford University Rugby football for the year has excited some surprise in the Dominion, it may be explained (telegraphs cur Dunedin correspondent) that he lias baen incapacitated from playing ion some time as tho result of an accident in the match in which he played for the London-Scottish- team, and consequently had to decline several invitations to play in the Oxford University team. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union last evening, the. following were present : Messrs. G. Dixon (chairman), Hyams, Isaacs, Wallburton, Galbraith, and) Wylie. The Auckland, Rugby Union wrote asking for the committee's ruling in. regard to special challenge matches in connection with' tha Ranfurlv Shield It was docided that under rule 7 of the Ranfurly Shield regulations the net pro.ceeds of all special challenge matches are the property of tho New Zealand Union. , Apropos pf thei financial assistance which the Government has ' decided to givo to the protection of infant life in the fouT centres, the Minister of PublicHealth (tha Hon. Geo. FowETs) explains that the Government's 1 contribution will be on the basis of a £1 for £1 subsidy, up to £100, on voluntary subscriptions in the case of each centre." In this way it is hoped to spread a better knowledge of how to- feed infants under the age of one yeaT, and thereby greatly reduce the mortality. The societies for the protection of infant life at Auckland, Wellington, Chi-ystchurch, and Dunedin are arranging for the supply of humanised milk.' The Minister has no doubt that each of the societies named will bata t able to raise more than £100 by volua- \ tary effort. The Premier is having a busy tim o just now. He left Wellington at 750 yesterday morning, arrived at Taihape by a special train from Marton at 3 p.m., was met by an enthusiastic crowd of residents, and opened the new post office m the blazing sun. He was de. putationised for an hour and a half, spent most of the night at a banquet, and then went to bled for a few hours To-day he had to catch a special at Taihapo at 45.45, and go through to Featherston, having his breakfast at Palmerston. North at 8.15. At Featherston lie was to take trap or motor to Maryborough some thirteen ' miles away, and there open a new bridge. Then he has to go back to Featherston, catch the evening train for Wellington, and at 8 o'clock lie is to be present at the Public Service Association's celebration in honour of the passing of tho Superannuation and Classification Acts. "Hung up in the Native Land Court ' for years" is the graphic description of the deplorable position of thousands of acres of the Waiapu land, as revealed by the Native Land Commission enquiry (says the Poverty Bay Herald). There are at the present day 143,000 acres of papatipu land in the Waiapu, mostly north of the rivers, which the Maori owners, alarmed at the action of past Governments and their officers, have withheld from investigation of tho Native Land Court. The owners havo not been ascertained, the interests aro undefined, and no titles are procurable, fo commence farming a portion of tha ■land would mean that other claimants would step in and demand the improved" area as theirs. Kumera plantations havo been made by an industrious owner only to sec another native step in and help himself when the kumeras were ripe, declaring the land and its crow Were his. Despite these disadvantages, farming is proceeding on block after block at the, present .day, yet the v thoughtless pafceha demands, "Why don't these Maoris utilise their lands or sell them?" Two cabmen fought .a, duel this morning near the Hotel Cecil. They opened with hot rounds of language, and followed up this bombardment by belabouring each other with whips. One Jehu was enthroned on a hansom, the other on a four-wheeler, and each hoped to beat the other fora casual shilling or two. It was just after the early morning train from tha suburbs had arrived, and the combatants therefore entertained a fair number of spectators. The drivers hoped to catch persons who -were doing a late sprint for the Manawatu mail. They fancied that a car which would come .to the Government Station and go no further might contain a person or two eager to get aboard the Manawatu train, and they fought for the best strategic position. They wheeled around one another, like two wrestlers on a mat in a bout of catch-as-caich-can. Their horses clashed against each other, and the vehicles and the animals ran grave risk of suffering more damage than could be made good out of the profits of a fare. At last one cab forged ahead of the other, and then language streamed in turgid floods from the mouth of tho vanquished. Noticing that bis words failed to wilt his hardened enemy, l-,o laid on his whip, and Ms antagonist returned the compliment. "Get on your Kink,/' roared one of the combatants*This amt a rank," retorted the other, and he went on with the entertainment. In the meantime, a fellow Jel-i, driving triumphantly past with a fare, crowed over ilia fighters. The duellists went empty away. One of the most conspicuous features of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees' weekly meetings in the disposal of applications for relief, is the gentleness with which each case is handled, but tho board had a difficult case to deal with yesterday, when a rough-looking, su U . burned applicant came before them "to know what they were going to do with ♦ "?' -ii » i vo ■ C i >me down from Masterton ill," he said. "I s l epfc oyt iv th(J Basin Reserve last night. What are you going to do with me ?» lie a l so said ho had been to the Hospital and had got some medicine; but was not admitted for treatment "Where i s the medicine.' asked the chairman (Rev W A Evans) "Ok, I ccatn > t carry an "^ enry a shop in my pocket. 1 want to know what you are going to do. I'll sleep out to-night— here, in tho main street, unless j-ot help me, and that will rebound on you." "Oh, dear no, it will do nothing --ot tho kind," coolly observed the chairman. "You had better go back Jo Masterton," he added. "We cannot do more than liejp (he people in oar own district. However, for the night yon shall have an order on the Salvation Army for a night's lodging." This ms a manifestly unwelcome sutjgestion, ami although the man took the order he subsequently tore it up. "You arc dispensers of public charity," ] 1c shouted, "not your own charity." Fragments of more argument were heard as the man went downstairs, and tho words "rebound on you," "main street," could bo heard growing- fainter and fainter as the disappointed applicant left the proraises. Ladies' 'toilet cases, containing fourteen pieces iii all, in sterling silver,, packed in richly-lined snlin and velvet cases, at £5 15a 6d each. Kirkcaldio and Staijaa, Ltd.— -Advfc*