LATE TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 17047, 19 May 1919, Page 8

LATE TELEGRAMS.

Tho Minkfoi' of Health, as a result of a visit to the quarantine station ■’t Somes Island ordered that the present buildings should be renovated and minted at <mo Tho water supply is i» bo unproved and additional buildir es erected nialoix' a total accommodation tor 500 persona. Oho Minister: t cornu l uinls were instilled, but the state ot the fcmlduig. St after being occupied for over three year. by C Thr^ictmsM? e vote w?tSf Arowla °aud' Carpentaria; will bo counted tliisj week Thi wdl leave three troopships yet to come, with approximately 1292 votes on board. Tho next of these throe is duo before tho tend of the month! The Samoan return of about 200 votes is nob expected till ths ™ ft „H week in .Tone.—Wellington telegram. „ . „ „ , „ . , , V Napici me-sago reports that over 2.4 m of ram fell up to 9 a.m. to-day Ah n r nnt decision concerning tho offence of bigamy was made at the Weme Court at Wellington to-day. when tho Chief Justice, following a .the Supiomc Co c t { yppenl that section 224 ot the. Crimes Act recent decision of (iua? hed an indictment of bigamy on dealing with the olh-u ri. «.t ; a “ h(j chief Jnrtioo Silic r t |iat as £?? |« 0 bo d <;ould sec at present, tho Court of Appeal, having held that «ecu„%a° ° ultra vtrcL-that was, that the Now Zealand Parliament had no power to pass the section—tho indictment could not be said to be no pO\\el IJ I™®* 4-lia.i. it was irs. iho power of the Court to strike gord. He f ra . r\- e Crown suggested, certain 1 words of the statute, out, as hb- Ma m, y o would have been different had the statute been and thereby make it gom m “/^° el “ ret£ltion oJ bigamy. The indiottTnt^^0 d ciu4er%ut ho would accede to the request of Sir P. 6. rtiffS oMm) that tho question bo reserved for tho Appeal Court. The position was unfortunate. The prisoner was discharged, Pies, Association 8 a .. m . C n Saturday, the rainfall registered at wSref toialkd 3,25 m. Outside reports indicate that the rainfall m general throughout tl.‘« i;^ ll0 "| I State Advances Board Tho Acting Minister ro . .me have acciued to extend 1 - j f-j authorities be extended I xhc ** *- & sa. rjsed by the board. -“Wellington telegram,