LATE SHIPPING.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1924, Page 3

LATE SHIPPING.

uy TF.i.F.ait.vrn —ritF.ss assn., coi’vricht. WELLINGTON. October I.—Sailed at 11, IT a.ip. Kittr.wy for Greymoqtlt.

naval mail, on tho ground of desertion. Petitioner stated that tlie marriage took place in April, 1021, and there were no children. They lived at OneImnga for about cue month after tlie marriage. Respondent then left her. She had taken proceedings against him for maintenance, and had received only Cl towards her support. Osborne Lil|v said the respondent arrived in New Zealand in the Renown, and hold a

good position as to rating. He deserted the ship to meet the petitioner. Counsel had been inlormed that the

Prince had actually endorsed his papers to the effect that he should not lie prosecuted or arrested, and that probably he would make a good colonist. Petitioner said she wrote to respondent last February, asking him to make a home, lie replied that he had no intention of ever living with her again. She had not seen him since IC2I, and earned her own living. Counsel having undertaken to produce a copy of the marriage certificate, his Honour said he would make a decree when that was done.

INTEREST ON OA'ERDUE ACCOUNT. AUCKLAND, Oct. 1. In a case in which a firm of warehousemen sued for interest on o\etdue accounts, the S..AI. held tho daim was justifiable, and gave judgement for plaintiff.

THE COMET. HA AY ERA, Oct. 1The comet was seen at llawera by E. (lawitli, with an eight inch reflector. Local astronomers think it is iinlikelv to be visible to the naked eye. OBITUARY. 11 AAA - Ell A. Oct. 1. Obituary.—folin Alacklam. aged 91. and William Charles Adamson, aged 75. .Both the deceased were old residents of | |aworn. The latter was one of the founders of the Egniont Racing Clnh. lie had been a life member for some years, but recently retired after bolding ollice c.intiniii.'tifJv for HI years.

BESUI.T OF LOVER'S QUARKEI BANNEYIRKE, Oct. I.

At lhe inquest concerning the death of Ida Jeannie Cull', aged 21, hmnd dead in I*. Pritchard’s dental rooms on Tuesday morning, the evidence disclosed that on Monday evening, deceased and a young man keeping company with her twice quarrelled. On the second occasion. when they parted each went in dilfcrent directions. Nothing was seen of ilei eased until she was found dead next morning, under a bench in the workroom • urgery. covered with a rug. T lie Coroner loutid that death was due to (oal gas poisoning, self administered, while in a stale of severe mental depression, folTowing on a quarrel with a witness.