In Divorce COURTS AND OFFENCES In Divorce

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12748, 20 April 1909, Page 7

In Divorce

COURTS AND OFFENCES

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 20. The judgment of the Full Court in the point in the case Poingdestre v Poingdestre, as to domicile as affecting service On the respondent husband, was that the suit 'could proceed, and it was not necessary, to have personal service on respondent,, who deserted his wife and went to Seattle,"" whence he wrote. to her for two yean, and was then heard from no more.

Patients at the Otaki Sanatorium did well at the recent Horowhenua Show, under the direction of Mr Melrose, head gardener. They raised sunflowers (3ft in diameter), mammoth onions, luscious red beets, and pumpkins weighing 77$lb. For these they obtained first prizes. For their collections of vegetables they gained second prize, and honourable mention was made of their exhibits from the kitchen garden. The garden work generally has been found to be a very useful agency for improving the patients' condition.

Ocean currents can be traced by throw, ing- into the sea, at various points, sealed bottles containing records of the date and place at which they were abandoned. When these bottles are found on the coasts or picked up by ships, they furnish data for the calculation of their probable course and the time occupied in accomplishing the journey. The Hydrographic Bureau of the United States, lor the purpose of obtaining a great many such indications from which a general scheme of ocean currents may be deduced, supplies ship captains with bpttles containing blank forms on which the date and latitude and longitude of the place are in scribed when they are thrown overboard. The captain of the ship Emma Laurans has published iv The Yacht a note on the wanderings of one of these bottles which, thrown overboard h~ ! im on March 24, 1906, at 51 deg. S. tat. ancf 48 deg. 40 mm. W. long., was picked up more than thirty months aftenv.irc* ort September 2 1908; near Robe, in boil: -m, Australia, in aboirt 37 deg. S. lat. an-i > .-. <V ? E i o ' nff having travelled 14 degree. lf , latitude and nearly 189 degrees in longitude. It would be very interesting to know the precise route followed by the bottle, but the precise route is never given by these experiments, as they ajce conducted at present. If, says the Scientific American, all captain* who find these floating bottles would set. them T*dnft again after recording the place a&4 .-date, more could be learned of their wandering? and, consequently of the course of Ocean currents.