DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BT TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SLAUGHTERMEN RESUME. DUNEDIN. May 2. Slaughtermen, returned to work at Fincgand this morning, the management accepting an expression that their action in going slow arose through ignorance ol the fact that the employment ol the man who was the occasion of the trouble was under consideration of the national disputes committee.

I'.USE PRETENCES. AUCKLAND. May I. According to Senior Detective Hammond there are heaps of “mugs” in Auckland. A young man. John Henry Irvine, was before Mr E. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court upon a charge of having failed to make restitution of £lO fraudulently obtained from Walter A. McCarthy on August 20th last year. This was rather a mean case.” said Mr Hammond. "Irvine advertised (bat be bad a good business for sale for COO, and wanted a partner. When be got the money .be would clear out. Of course there was no business. Tt'.s the easiest way of getting money that 1 know of. A man only has to rent an office for 10s a week, advertise for a partner, and some 4 mug will always come along and hand over bis money. It’s like getting money from home.” Irvine, who. is at present serving a sentence, was convicted and discharged.

MELANESIA. BISHOP STEWARD RESIGNS. AUCKLAND. April 30. The Bishop of Melanesia, the Right Rev. John Steward, has forwarded bis resignation to the Primate ol New Zealand. Archbishop Averill. 111-health is said to be flic reason for the Bishop's decision. Bishop Steward was appointed to the Bishopric of Melanesia in 1010, and has not. enjoyed the best of health since. The Bishop is a son ol the late lie-,-. ('. E. Stcwnul. Vicar of Now Shore bam, Sussex-. lie was educated at Radley College, Magdalen College (Oxford), where be took the M.A. degree, and at Ely Theological College. Bishop Steward’s tirsl missionary experience was gained at Guadaleanor between 1002 and I Of 4 ,';. He was in Florida for live veal's, and was subsequently appointed priest in (barge at the Maravovo Theological College, lie has resided, since his election to the bench of Bishops, at Siolo. in the British Solomons. Melanesia is part of the ecclesiastical province of Now Zealand, and the election of a new Bishop is in the hand? ef the New Zealand Bishops.

HAMILTON COUPLE’S LIKE. HAMILTON. May 2. •‘The law does not permit a magistrate to make a. separation order in eases where married couples cannot agree owing to display of bad temper on both sides,” declared Air Wyvcrn Wiis'in, S.M., at Hamilton, in refusing the application of Alice Lynburn for separation and maintenance from her husband, Rov Alexander Lynburn, a carpenter. Applicant said mat her husband was the organist of the Frnnkton Presbyterian Church, and bad been consistently cruel to her. There bad been •'rows’' ever since they were married 11 years ago. and these usually culminated in mutual recriminations. Latterly he had given her nothing to keep the house on, and she had to depend upon the charity of her neighbours fur food for herself and children. On one occasion he nearly choked her. and had then threatened to shoot her and then himself. In conseqeinice she had to hide his gun. One day ho put her on the bed. and pressed a pillow into her mouth in an effort to smother her. He then went out and told a man that he thought lie had choked his wife. Cross-examined by Air Strang, the applicant admitted that she swore, at her husband, and that she had thrown a cup of tea over him, and also ’lint when he attacked her she f night him hunk. Recently her husband brought her a purse from Auckland, hut v hen he commence 1 to tell tier of all Iho icuialo members of his choir whom he had taken to Lena Park, she threw the purse into the yard. Without hearing the defence, the magistrate refused to make an order, stating t’-nt the di'Terences of the collide acre probably the outcome of bad temper on both sides.

CONFISCATED AL-VORI LANDS. AVATROA, Afav 2.

The Ranpatu Commission, which is enquiring into the grievances of certain Afaori tribes, opened a sitting at AAairna to-day. 'ILe first three petitions dealt with the Kauhouron Block, tile petitioners alleging the cession of the land was wrong and the Government was unjustified in taking the lands. Ihe M,'inn's asked that the lands he returned, or that compensation he paid. ATr Robert Sim conducted the eases, which occupied practically the whole afternoon. He contended that the deed of agreement was made with the loyalists only who agreed to hand over the rebels’ lands, without their being certified to as rebels, ns required, and that many of the Han Hans signed the deed as Loyalists. Tlie Commission adjourned until to morrow morning.