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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 68, 18 September 1917, Page 8

His Honour the Chief Justice (Si* Robert Stout) has reserved his decision in the case of the two Native women, Pairama v. Edwin H. Hardy, surveyor, Te Kuiti. This was a 1 claim concerning the alleged illegal vesting in the "defendant of portion of the plaintiffs' land. Mr. E. P. Bunny appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. T. Neave for the defendant.

: What was described as a deliberate . attempt by-a husband to evade his re-, sponsibilities was ventilated in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Claude Dagmar Page appeared to answer a charge of disobeying a maintenance order made in respect of his .wife. The arrears amounted,to £26 Is. In evidence Page stated that during the past six months he had had only about six weeks' work, at the rate of '25s a week. When' the order was made he. was employed by; Mr. Castle, chemist, as an assistant chemist/at £3 5s a week. He left Mr. Castle's ■ v employ because he was afraid of making mistakes, in prescriptions, as he was greatly worried over. his domestic affairs. Going to Christchurch, he obtained employment .as a porter in a hotel, and was there about five weeks. In answer to Mr.. H. F. O'Leary, who appeared for the informant, Page: admitted that he had given "his wife no money during the past six months. - The Magistrate : '' It is plain'the defendant has been deliberately evading the order. He will be sentenced to six months' imprisonment, no warrant to issue unless applied for." The Auckland Acctimatieation Society at its meeting on Friday evening condemned the use of cylinders in duck shooting. ■ The practice which permits of the ducks, being ruthlessly slaughtered was explained by Mr. C. A. Whitney. It was considered, to.be uimportemanlike. Strong resentment was also expressed by members at the indiscriminate shooting of native pigeons in and out of season by Maoris. An opinion of tho. Crown Law Office is to be obtained on the point. /..■'..■ Added to and improved in many ways, the twenty-seventh issue of Stone's Wellington, Hawkes Bay and Taranaki Directory (September, 1917, to September, 1918), a copy of which has reached us, is a valuable publication. As in the past, the names, and addresses in the street and alphabetical directories have been compiled by means of a house-to-houso canvass, while the other information has been obtained from official and equally reliable sources. The map of Wellington and Suburbs has been brought I up to date, and. the Customs tariff, which occupies several pages, has been "'carefully revised. There is much useful information of a general character, including synopses of . several important Acts of Parliament, an official directory, etc. The publication is well up to the usual high standard. :

Their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool will be present at Mr. GeraMl' Anderson's lecture to be given in the Town Hall Concert Chamber on 25th September. , ... .