NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1927, 8 November 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

PRISMS ASSOCIATION Dunedin, list n'qhi,

At the annual mooting of tbc Women a ■ Christian Temperance Union, a motion was unanimously passed protesting against the legalising of the totalisatof on grounds that it gives Government sanction a vice which is disastrous to social life; that it is inconsistent with numerous enactments against gambling in other forms; that it derives public revenue Irom a praetico which till Governments have found it necessary to suppress ; and that it has failed to decrease the number of bookmakers whose illegal pursuit it was intended to abolish, The divorco ease Hopgood v. Hopgood and Williams, husbands’ petition, was retried to-day, the second jury by a threoj fourths majority finding in favor of petitioner, and a dcerco nisi was granted. At the Anglican Diocesan Synod it was reported tlr.it up to the end of October Xi>7t>o had been received for the proposed new cathedral, and nearly X-100 moro promisod; X’. 0,000 is required to cnablo tho bequest of the jlatc Mr W. Ilurrop to be claimed. Lochcad’s furniture factory at Maryhm, Moruington, was totally destroyed by lire last night. Thcro is no water supply in that suburb Three employees wore working when the liro was discovered, Tho insurances arc: Building X WO, valued at JE9OO ; machinery ,(MSO, valued at XbOOO, all in the Royal oilico Palmerston North, last nightA married woman named Susan Cole was arrested here late yesterday afternoon on a charge of having, on or about tho month of ,i line last, at Palmerston North, used certain instruments upon Agnes Maughan, a married woman, with intent to procure abortion. Accused was before the Police Court this morning, and on tho application of tho police remanded for eight days. Tho police stated tho woman operated upon was between liie and death, and had in fact been given up by the doctor. Application by accused’s counsel for bail was refused.

A four roomed cottage in Taouui street, owned by Mrs Hanson and unoccupied, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. Tho insurance was £75 in the Alliance.

Auckland, last night

"William F. Clausen, of Otaliuhu, was arrested to day on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of his infant child, which took placo at Otaliuhu on October 27. He was remanded until Saturday, At the inquest the jury brought in a verdict of death from natural causes, but added a rider to the effect that carelessness had been shown by deceased’s parents, the father being especially to blamo.