NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 597, 27 August 1909, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

A DEVELOPMENT IN COURT. I ; :,Si IBy Toiograpli.-Press .Asaoolatlon.) i r, - Glsbol'fio, August 25. 7 • A claim for .wages, which waa tieard at . the, Magistrate's Court to-day, - produced a remarkable development.Elsie Lindergreen. i > wife, of a local butcher, sued Nathaniel Burgess, ; boaTdinghouse-koeper," for . '£45,: ■wages..alleged ,to .have baen due -to her as ; housekeeper.»( Plaintiff: alleges - .that > she ,met defendont in Wellington in , May of -last year, snd there . went through a inock marriage, : - yhioh:she believod.at the time to be genuine. . Subsequently. Burgess Temoved to Gisborne, , . too,living with him as his i wife,, but later; they -quarrelled and, in Maroh, she found out that.she was not -legally, married. Sho then ' left -Burgess. "Defendant ;.admits.-having.'-. livedo frith' '.the woman.'m, his wife, but denies that there WS6;-any-marriage ceremony."-- The-case waa adjourned until Saturday. < ' • ' < > .LESSENING FIRE RISKS. Auckland, August 26. The Auckland Fire Board has decided' to' v ask the City. Council to frame a by-law to prevent- wooden partitions being -placed in brick buildings: The board will also^make - reoommendations t<i tho council in regard to the provision of fireproof- curtains in theatres.'A 'suggestion was approved .that these curtains..should ,bear notices , callings attention to; the. that, under nonnal_ conditions) a large theatre suoh, as His: Majesty's 'can be emptied '-in threo-: minutes, ana ; also indicating the position of fire escape exits. • ■ THE ARBITRATION OOURT VAOANOY, V/anganul, August 25. * The Vj anganui branch the Employers' Association to-night deoided. to ■ support the nomination of-'Mr.: W;. Scott, of :Dunedin,' as /ft! member of the Arbitration Court. A resolution) expressing appreciation of the? ser- , vices rendered by the late Mr. Samuel Brown, j Was also passed. ' Oamaru, August 26. ■ The North Otago Employers' Association has. nominated Mr.: Scott for a seat on tho Arbitration Court. • • -■-■