TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.J ’© ALUSIOAI. EXAMINER. WELLINGTON, July 31. Air Alfred Quaife has been appointed to conduct tho annual practical examinations of the Associated • Board R.A.AI. and R.C.M., London in Now Zealand this year. He wifi arrive in Auckland on August 23rd, and trill follow the usual tour through the Dominion. FATAL COLLISION. NELSON, July 31. Percy A. E. Schroder, aged “Jf years, a returned soldier, was accidentally killed by a in*tor cycle colliding with a telepraph post on Rocks Road last evening. A verdict of accidentally killed was returned. BOWING CHAMPIONS. BLENHEIM, July 31. Fogwell will row Tat Hunnart for the New Zealand Championship on Wniran liver about Christmas. Hannan states he will go into full training next month. The ifrtieles stipulated that Fogwell arrive here one month before the date of the race. Hannan considers Waiuau an ideal river course, with no turns and plenty of landmarks to judge pace and distance. A FRACTURED NECK. WAIMATE, July 31.

.Matthew Quirke ,n middle-aged man, who was engaged carting turnips on a farm near Wannate, was found, last evening lying on his back, unable to move. He was removed to tire hospital, when lie was found to be suffering from a fractured neck. The verteh;r.i minimi .had been dislocated without severing the spinal cord. It is surmised that he foil from the cart while working. He died this evening. STAKES IN A WAGER. STRATFORD, July 30. Tlie .Magistiute’s Court was engaged to-day in an interesting case, in which George .Morrison, blacksmith, claimed from Stanley Sharp, hairdresser, the sum of £SO, paid by Morrison to Sharp as stakes in a% waaier on the result of the general election in Stratford. Morrison claimed Shat Sharp .paid over the money contrary to his instructions. Counsel for the defence contended that plaintiff was precluded from bringing the action bv the last words of section 70 of. the Gaming Act, which sets out that no action can be brought in respect of money ♦won, lost, or staked” oh any wagering transaction. Counsel for plaintiff contended that the transaction between -Morrison and Sharp was not a wagering transaction, hut only an oedinary contract between principal and agent. Counsel for the plaintiff alss held that tho words quot- f ed meant no more than was contained in section 09. and ttiafe therefore the New Zealand Act was similar t<o the English Act, and that decisions under tlie English Act gave plaintiff the 'right bring the action. Decision was reserved for a fortnight.

PECULIAR DIVORCE CASE. AUCKLAND, July 81

Judge Salnaond gave his reserved decision m to whether the refusal of martial rights was sufficient ground for a ii.vorce upon a. petition for constructive cTfesertion. His Hontur said tht fin a New Zealand ease in which the refusal of martial rights was the only element in tlie evidence a divorce was refused. In another case the Court had decided in the otWer direction and in a third, the Judge had not decided one way or the other. In the majority of ivises there was a great deal more than the refusal of martial sights which was treated a* merely- an element. In the present ease the husband and wife were is the position of some parties who had lived in the same ltouhe, practically as strangers. For all he knew they had keen living in some respects as husband and wife, except for tdw nndjiseliosed reason rbhat martia.l intercourse and ceased. There was no reported ease in Australia, England or New Zealand, in which a, divorce had bean granted on thhrt ground alone. His Honour agreed to hear further evidence, after which, he said, if it was sufficient to prove dsserton, a decree nisi would be granted.