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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2807, 23 March 1882, Page 3

An emergency meeting of the L.O.L.i Friendship, No. 35, is announced lor Friday evening at 7.30, The official enquiry re the collision between the steamer Waitaki and the tug Eoputai at Port Chalmers has revealed nothing except that there was a collision. However the evidence has been forwarded to Wellington, and some Solomon there will doubtless make the mystery plain. The Inspector-General of schools has visited the Lyttelton Orphanage and reported upon it, He commences by saying that all the arrangements appear “ quite satisfactory ” and then treats an unpleasant subject (as Cheeks the boatswain did) " in the most delicate manner possible 1 ’ the only exception to the “satisfactory state” being “that the efforts made during the year to exterminate insects infesting the dormitorien have been oniy partially sue cessful. - ’ The curtain was raised yesterday in the R. M. Court, Chistohuroh.upon one of those sad scenes of domestic misery which are only too common. A man who is under order of the Court to pay for the separate maintenance of his wife and six children at the rate of 15s per week, applied for the amount to be reduced, on the ground of his inability from poverty to keep up his payments. His wife opposed the application. It came out during the proceedings that he had deserted his wife and family and was living with another woman. He was not earning more than ill per week, A son of the parties corroborate bis father a statement as to his means, a" t adr'ed that the father had be-m unable. 1 mother on account of her violent temper. The “ woman ” referred towns assistant iO the father in his business, and stated she had no other relations with him. Mr Bcethmn, with his usual sagacity, considering there were faults on both sides, declined to give effect to the application.