INTERPROVINCAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13700, 2 June 1915, Page 4

INTERPROVINCAL.

■ (Per Press Association. 1 :.'■■' WEaiLINGTON,' this day. An unusual application was made at the -Supremo ■ Ctourt to-day,' when a young lady of 18, who is v engaged to be married to a soldier; m camp at Trentham, asked Mr Justice Chapman to authorise tho naarjHage; a^she could not get the consent <?f ncr parents,' who are inmates of a mental hospital. The Marriage Act provide? m such cases that application may be made to the Supreme "'Cd'uft ,tp declare the proposed marriage a proper one. '.In granting the request, Hia. Honor remarked that the, young lady appeared quite capable of looking , after 'herself; and , of making a right /choice. ' , . :... A. conference , of, .delegates of the Post and Telegraph service opened yesterday. It was resolved- that , a.ll officers x be granted, inonewi.y payment for overtime and Sunday holiday ■ duty ; -^that the practice of granting time off .to some junior exchange clerks be .abolished, and the principle of monetary payment for Sunday's holidays, be adherdd t>; that . it is desired that all overtime be paid twice monthly; that duty performed after' 6 p.m. and before 8. aan. <:» travelling post offices bo paid at the rate of ninepence per hour; that ay 44 hours.' week be the ba;sis for officers working on railway post offices; senior agents to reeteive an additional nionv tary allowance ; exchange clerks Avorking froth the midnight to B 'a.m. shift should receive overtime m excess of a 44 hours' week.

A young man, George Mitchell, a mental patient at Porirua. Asylum; committed suicide by hanging. At the inquest evidence was given that Mitchell" was a quiet patient, and had no suicidal tendencies. He was left for a few minutes. He went to a lavatory. When found .10 was suspended "by a strap.' CHRISTOHURCH, this day. Edward Alger, an old age pensioner, iell from [a, . tram at Heathcote last niglit aild was cut m two, a carriage and van passing over 'him. He was standing on' the platform at the ' time, and fell off as the train started to move. TNVBRCARGILL, this day. The Supreme Court _bperie<d yesterday before , Mr t Justice Sim. Barcy Robert' McDev'ille (20) and Norman Darcy Braden, were charged with absconding from Invarcargill GaoK Each received six months' hard labor. "Eric TuckweU Poble (17) charged with stealing .$ postal packet, pleaded guilty and was-prdered fep.'ftay, £10. . .;, i John' Donal^ McQiiaiTie and Joseph Arthur INlet^er, charged, with breaking and entering a warehouse and ..stealing, seventy bottles of ale and receiving stolen property, pleaded not guilty. Me-; Quarrie was .found not guilty on both charges, and Metzger was.foiind guilty of receiving and 'remanded for sentence.