AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1474, 7 June 1905, Page 3

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association. l ) Auckland, lam night. 1 In the Police Oouit James Beckett, was final £6O and coses on sis informations onaiging him wish laving tota lsator uddr, M. H. Quick was fined 4«U and cos a on the first of 11 charges of ,8 riding er-legrams oo various bookmakers making oeis as tote odds. The remaining iufurmasions were dismissed. A prosecution, probably the first of the kind in the colony, instituted by the Deputy Commissioner of Stamps at Auckland, was beard in the Police Court to-day against Adam Magill and John Logan, charged with failing to fils wish ,the Commissioner of Stamps a statement in respect of property in the estate of a deceased person in which they were administrators. The Crown Prosecutor stated that a dis puse between defendants regarding duties resulted in the Commissioner having to wait for accounts while the executors y fought amongst themselves. Mr Kettle, S.M., imposed a nominal fine of 10s each and costs, remarking that deliberate delay on the part of executors would be met by the infliction of a substantial penalty. Elizabeth Mary Maloney, executrix of another estate, was fined 10s and costs on a similar charge. Among tbe passengers by the s.e. Sierra was Dr Ernest Rutherford, well known io tbe scientific world in consequence of im. a portant discoveries resulting from bis researches into the properties of radium, He is a New Zealander by birth. He is now payiDg a short visit to tbo eoloDy after an absence of five years. Professor Rather- ► ford will spend about two months in tbe colony, returning to Montreal about September next. Ho will probably deliver a lecture as Christchurch. The Divorce Court grantod decrees nisi I in the cases of Sarah Jane Cole v. Walter »■ H- s - Gole, desertion ; Amy Sophia Smith v. William Smith, desertion; William Frederick Woolmer v. Mary Margaret Woolmer, adultery; Edward Samuel Dent V, Margaret Dent and Jesse Showe. corespondent, adultery; Henry Webb v. Ann Webb and L. Freeman, co-respon-dent, adultery.