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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9171, 15 June 1908, Page 5

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Per Press Association. . iWellington, June 35. In the Supreme Court-Mr Justice Chapman to-day, awarded £7OO damages to " Arthur John Usher, • wharf labourer, who claimed £ISOO from the Federal Steam Navigation Company' for injuries;, sustained by an accident om the steamer Surrey, whoa through .defects-■ .in.appliances he fell 43 feet, into the hold. . . The Magistrate reserved decision in cases'where several ~ Chinese and Europeans were charge.d' with .breach of the gaming laws by plhyifig pakapoo. Two Harbour Board employees were each fined £3 and costs for stealing 21 packets of cigarettes from a case they found open in the shed. , • ; ' Auckland, June 15. Sylvia May West, of Waihi, was ".granted -a.: .divorce against Thomas West’, -livery stable keeper of Inglewood, ’6n the ground nf misconduct. ;■ Edward McCallum Blake, an archi.tect, obtained a divorce from Mabel Charlotte ■ Blake, on the ground of adultery with- Norman Jaggar, an insurance, clerk. A decree nisi was granted with costs on the highest scale against the co-respondent. Decrees absolute wore made in the cases : Sarah Barnes v. Henry Barnes and Eliza Thomson v. David Thomson.