DOMINION NEWS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2285, 2 September 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, September 1. William Porter, a single man, aged 25 years, died suddenly between 7.30 last night and 3.30 this morning on the fishing boat Maroro. Tlio deceased was out on a week’s fishing cruise with the two Sanford brothers, lie seemed in tlio best of spirits last night, and returned at 7.30. When they went to wako him up at 3.30 he was dead. An inquest will bo held.

Dr. Purdy, District Health Officer, in a. lecture last night-, urged the teaching „of hygiene m schools as a compulsory subject, together with systematic medical inspection of schools. Let them have competent dentists to attend to the teeth of the children in our schools, iit least in each of tho chief centres. Dental dispensaries 'should be established to which all children with carious teeth should bo sent. All volunteers should be allowed free to consult a dentist, who would be paid a regulation fee, according to work done. Tho standard of the people would be raised by the subsidising of dentists. Next to a sanatorium for consumptives and a children’s hospital, he could not advise enyono" desirous ’ of leaving money to a good cause to do better than t 0 found and endow a dental dispensary. (Applause.) A young girl whose parents reside at Wailii was in town during fleet week, and took her young brother out to see the sights. In the crowd she lost sight of him, and' subsequently heard that he had been injured and taken to the hospital. The shock and sense of her failure to carry out tho trust of her young relative proved so much on her mind that when she got homo she swallowed some match-heads and had as a. result to be taken herself to the hospital. "When the ease was called in Court it was explained that she had but recently recovered from a severe attack of enteric fever, ami ns she appeared to have regained her mental balance the girl was allowed to return t 0 the care of her relatives. WANGANUI, September 1. At tho Supremo Court to-day, a decree nisi was granted on the petition of a. husband, who applied under the Act of last session, which provides insanity as a ground of divorce. An interesting case was before the Supreme Court yesterday and to-day under the provisions of the Slaughtering Inspection Act, 1908. The Borough Council delegated powers to the Wanganui Freezing Company to establish abattoirs in tho town of Wanganui. The Freezing Company have been conducting abattoirs since 1902, and recently tho company entered into the retail trade, and the local butchers objected to the continuance of the powers delegated to flic companv bv tho Borotigh Council. They contended that apart from unsatisfactory management,., the Freezing Company was given an unfair .advantage over other butchers in that they were made aware of competitors’ business. The Borough Council was approached and asked to establish an independent abbatoir, but they refused. Messrs Tucker Bros, took the matter to the Supreme Court, which to-day gave judgment for the Borough Council and the company, with costs as on a claim for £300,, ton guineas extra per day to each defendant, and the usual Court costs.- : • WELLINGTON, September 1. The following is Captain Edwin’s weather forecast- to 3 p.m. to-monow . Moite-ate to strong easterly winds northward of Napier and New Plymouth, but from the northward everywhere else, with falling barometer* everywhere. The Advisory Boards of the New Zealand Employers' Federation has fixed Wednesday, October 7th, as t-lio date for the annual meeting of the Federation. It is expected the gathering wi'l he one of the'best and most important yet held in connection with the Federation. It was reported to the Arbitration Court to-day that as the result of "conferences concerning the tailors’ dispute, an agreement had been reached in regard to the log. The points now unsettled were in reference to the number of apprentices to be employed, prohibition of apprentices in regard to pressing, payments for holidays, and the fixing of a minimum weekly wage. The Union asked for £3 per week in place of £2 1.5 sas now paid. The employers’ representative remarked on the scarcity of apprentices. Evidence will be taken by the Court regarding the points in dispute. CHRISTCHURCH, September 1. At the Supreme Court to-day Charles Willi tin Ackerley, of Christchurch, clerk, petitioned for tile dissolution of bis marriage with Annie Mary Gladys Ackerley. on the grounds of desertion aud misconduct. - His Honor granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months.

INVERCARGILL, September 1. Tlie Supreme Court was occupied to-day hearing a case of alleged sheep stealing against James Robertson. Accused pleaded not guilty, and the case was unfinished when the Court rose.

At the meeting of the Southland Presbytery this morning, the Rev. R. Ferguson, of First Church, accepted i hearty and unanimous cal! to St. Peter’s Church. Auckland. Air. Ferguson begins his new duties early in October.