DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1928, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

- (By Telegraph—P°r Press Association.)

A PPLICATIONS REFUSED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 3. Application hv tlie members of St. Michael’s < hurcli to give a performance in Choral l-Jall on the evening of Good Friday of Robert Hugh Benson’s Passion play “The Upper Room,” and the application for permission to screen the picture “The King of Kings,” in the Grand Theatre on tlie same evening were not granted by the City Council last night. AIAINTENANCE ORDER REDUCED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 2. “Do you mean to say that if a man deliberately deprives himself ol' It is property. the Court should vary the orders?” asked Alagistrate La wry of counsel appearing for John Duncan, who applied for the reduction of a maintenance order of three pounds weekly, in respect to his wife and children. When the order was made, Duncan was a farmer at Kirwce, hut on the night after the Court proceedings lie paid off his farm hands and fired liis house, buildings and stacks. His son was found dead in a. water race, and Duncan was arrested on a charge of murder. hut the evidence at the inquest disclosed that death had been due to natural causes.

In the Court to-day it was argued that Dunecan was suffering from a wound in the hand, and would he unable to work for three months. It was also argued that if all his property were taken to satisfy the maintenance order. Duncan would lie unable to start

again. The order was reduced from £3 to £2 3s weekly. BODY RECOVERED. AVEL LING TON, April 3. A body which is supposed to lie that of Miss Ellen Downey, one of the victims of the double drowning fatality at Titalii Bay oj March 25th, was recovered yesterday afternoon by a party of fishermen some eight miles south of Titalii Bay.