DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. WIFE DECLINES MAINTENANCE. CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. An unusual action of the wife in seeking to have a maintenance order against her husband revoked was mentioned in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Counsel for the wife, said the wife was making a good income as a millinery and dross designer, while the husband was in destitution. An order was made for the discontinuance of the maintainance. MASTERTON MAYOR’S JOGE. MASTERTON, July 27. A. E. Cooke, captain of the Wairarapa Rugby team, which played Canterbury for the Ranfurly Shield at Christchurch, emphatically denied that he or any other member of the team sent a reply to Mr T. Jordan (Mayor of Masterton) with reference to Mr Jordan’s telegram of congratulation, in which he suggested that the Shield might be dropped overboard. Cooke states that he anil the other members of the team took the telegram in the same spirit in which it was sent—ns a joke. The telegram was not read at the dinner after the match, but to the members of the team in the lobby of the hotel where the team was hoarded. The Press Association telegram from Christchurch in which it was reported that two prominent members of the Waira rap a team were forwarding a reply couched in certain words was not justified. DAYLIGHT SAVING. CHRISTCHURCH PROPOSAL. CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. The Mayor of Christchurch, Rev. J. K. Archer, has been approached to call a conference of representatives of public bodies and Business firms to see whether it is not . possible for the city to adopt some scheme of daylight saving to ho operative in Christchurch next summer. The Mayor has agreed to accede to the request, and he will announce the date of the conference later. the cable merger. WELLINGTON, July 27. The Prime Minister to-night released for publication a summary of the report of the Imperial Wireless and Cables Conference. No information can yet Ik? made available as to the attitude of the New Zealand Government, pending the decision of all but a statement will bo made in the House in due course.