AFFILIATION-UNUSUAL CASE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 5

AFFILIATION-UNUSUAL CASE.

WITH A MILITARY BEARING. Wt Selecraiin— Prose As£»o!Attcrs.) Auckland, May 10. 'An affiliation case presenting unusual eaturos came before Jlr. Kettio, S.M., tolay. This was a case in which a young poman mado a claim against flic father if the young man alleged to he tlio parent. It was stated that, (it the end of No'ember last, the young man had disapleared. leaving no trace lie hud been irrleral to join t!ie Territorials, and ho iad told his parents that ho intended to ea.ve the Dominion rather Minn servo, i'hey presumed that this was his reaton or leaving, as they knew of no other irewnstanees that would cause him to ■o away. The magistrate, after hearing the «ri. lenco, eain that he considered that the oiroboration of tlio girl's story was Giificiently strong to warrant Wβ making- an rder, though ho admitted that the law, 3 it stood, Bccmed unduly hard in mnkng the putative grandparenta responsible r>r the sins of their prodigal sons. An rder was mado for payment of 7s. Od. a wit, together with £o 18s. od. arrears, nd .£7 10s. birth expenses. Severe headache ? Won't etop, noii'ing linudy? Call at tlio noarcst cliein;ts; "Stearns' Headache Cure, ploasc." Inn' wafer gives ahaost instant re-et'.-Advt. M A painting by Corot, "Souvenir Ate Enirons du Lac do Nomi," wns recently ii<l n t miction in Nwv York City for 117.000—tho largest priije over paid in morion for a picture by this orliet. It ; cnid thiit Onrot originally Bold tho ainiinpf for 1000 dollarfi. Among recent American pa Umis . which Hract attention by reason of thoir norllv arc one for iiinking p:\usatjcs withaut ««iiijrs (a spM'iii!? procow), and one for on Immiiatcd flat iron. Tlio intier conti'ivnec is described ns coiitnhiiiig ineandes■iit lij,'ht bulb? which servo at the same me In licit ilie iron a;i<) lo illuminate Ir> work wliicli is being ironed, The paliiidromp, or sentence which !:uls alike , forward or backward, lias ex.' •cised the ingpiniily of many minds n"nce dam "-aiil to Kve, "Madam, I'm Adam." ne, which an exchange attributes to oito, tlio oomposer, is a characterisation f two of RbulfKipwre'e Iwrora. in .Italiani libra it Oi«li ui* iJ'iiJnte o orbo" (Drunk-