TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 9

TELEGRAMS

.(Per United Press Association.) ' WELLINGTON,-March 14. Up to noon to-day well over £400,000 had been received by the City Rates Office out of a total rate demand of approximately f 510,000. The position is slightly better than at the corresponding date last year. Arrested on his return from the Antarctic by the Bear of Oakland, Peter Barbedes appeared before Mr E. Page, S.M., to-day charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. Counsel said that arrangements had been made to .have;him before the court so thaiti the question of bull could be considered. Counsel said he understood that Barbedes was under the influence of liquor, and struckja man in a bar at' the Wellington. races last November. .The man.'fell on the concrete floor, and received injuries to his head. A. remand was granted to' Mar„ch '-21; bail being allowed in £IOO, ' . . GREYMOUTHi March 14; A sudden outbreak of. measles, caused the Grey Main Schbol'.to have 149 absentees'from 531 enrolled pupils. -The-absen-tees are not all ill, some being kept'at home' because members of-the family; have measles., .. '.,. ', . ''.'..''■ .- ..,.'•

CHRIST.CHURC H . Mar ch. u

On the grounds.. of, constructive , desertion Elsie Heighton petitioned for, a divorce in the Supreme Court this.moriiing before Mr Justice Johnston. -The respondent, Herbert William Heighton,-a bricklayer f was' a- Sunday school, superintendent, who was sentenced, in. 1928 to 10 years'" reformative- detention.'for offences against girls, but N -Was- released last year. It', was submitted' by counsel that the nature of' the crimes was a ground for " divorce. ■ The _ man' j had • not maintained his wife' since his release.; The offences were carried on without the knowledge of the wife. His;Honor stated, that he would have to consider the point, and n reserved his decision." The petition. Was not defended. , * : '