ALLEGED WIFE DESERTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 15 April 1908, Page 7

ALLEGED WIFE DESERTION.

MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY. TFBESB ASSOCIATION .1 WELLINGTON, April 15. Mr Holmes, Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, who returned from the North to-day, informed a Post reporter that he was satisfied if the weather during the coming win- ' ter was not unusually bad the North j Island Main Trunk Railway would be open for traffic at the end of the year. He thinks the Makatote viaduct will be finished in two months, and that at . the end of this month the gap between I the railheads will be reduced to nine miles.

» WELLINGTON, April 15. The following officers of the Agricultural Department have been notified that they he retired on super- , annuation from June 30: Stock Inspectors Moore (Blenheim), Fullerton (Ashburton), Raymond (Bluff), A. Mills (Wellington), J. E. Thomson (Dun<3din), Rabbit Agent McKellar (Livercargill), G. Ross, Dairy Inspector (Palmerston North).

WELLINGTON, April 15. Sydney Mitchell Barnesj s well known us a balloonist, was charged to-day with wife desertion at Waimate, and It was alleged that he was about to leave the colony. Barnes was remand- j ed to appear at Waimate on April 18. I Bail (self of £80 and /two sureties of £40 each) was allowed. VISITORS. WELLINGTON, April 15. Among the passengers by the Moeraki from Sydney were Mr Tom Mann j (Socialist) and H. Palmer, manager of . €he New Zealand professional Rugby | team. Palmer goes back to Sydney to complete the tour with the team.