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EXPERIMENT.
WIFE'S MAINTENANCE ORDER UPHELD.
Experiments-the first of their The Rev. William Edgar, Wil- kind-were recently made at Berlin lams, Rector of Little Mongelam, and Potadam with a view to con-Kent, appealed to Lork Merrivale ducting an opera with the aid of the and Mr. Justice Hill in a Divisional telephone. The musical plays "His Court recently from an order of the Sister" and "The Metamorphosis Wingham Justices reciting that he of the Cat," by Offenbach, were deserted his wife, Mrs. Louisa Jane performed at the Schauspielhaus at Williams, of Blenheim-road, Deal. Potadam, ie, the actors, the and ordering him to pay her two singers and the conductor (Dr. guincas a week maintentince. The Erich Fischer, head of the Ex-appeal was dismissed.. perimental Wireless -Station nt- Mr. Cotos Pready, K.C., for Mr. tached to the Charlottenburg Cón-Williams, submitted that this was servatoire) were present there, a case of grave importance to his whilst the orchestra romained in ellent. The wife alleged that her Berlin.
husband was intemperate and that Dr. Fischer conducted from his ho once threw cold water over hor. desk-in-the-ordinary way. The These allegations were absolutely optical signs of his baton were denied by the Itector. There was transformed into accoustic signs no evidence to warrant the finding by his assistant, Mr. Lother of the Justices." Grunberg, who was seated near him
Lord Merrivale, giving judgment, before his tele-conducting ap said that the seriousness of the crac paratus and were transmitted to was emphasised by the fact that the headphones of the members of the appellant had been suspended the orchestra-who, as has already from the exercise of his spiritual been stated, had remained in Bar-functions until he was cleared of lin-by telephone cable. The the imputations against him. orchestra was divided into its three. groupa of strings, wood-wind and brass, and the members were'sest- ed before their desks and micro- phones. They heard the acoustic signa above referred to by means of their headphones, so that they were indirectly conducted by the conductor from Potsdam. Their music, in its turn, was transmitted, ngain by telephone cables, to the loudspeakers placed in the Potsdam Schauspielhaus, where the audiopco could see the action on the stage before them, whilst listening to the orchestral music as transmitted to the loudspeakers. In spite of the
The Justice came to the conclu- long distance between the orchestra and the singers and actors respec-sion that there had been treatment' tively, the co-ordination between the which made it proper for the wife to go, and that amounted to legal parts was faultless.
Difference of Age.
The loctor was in the sixties, and he married a lady who was in the forties. He had been a widower. The mar- She had been a nurse, ringe had not been hanny, and in November of last year the wife left the home. She said that she was with opprobrious "told to go language," and she said that there had been treatment of her during the married life which seriously affected her health, and with which a married woman could not be ex-j pected to put up.
VESTRIS ENQUIRY.
It might be said that this achieve-desertion by the husband. There ment was nothing but the outcome was evidence to support that find- of a mere whim. It is, however, Ing. An order for two guineas a more than that: It is an experiment week was not oppressive. which opens out new prospects to "As to the other consequences," the managers of our theatres. It added Lord Merrivale, "if anybody is a well-known fact that the per-raises the question of whether the formance of opera in small towns finding of the Justices raises a re- has always been handicapped by the flection on the competency of the heavy expenditure incurred in con- husband to officiate na clergyman, nexion with the transportation of that will be dealt with elsewhere."
Mr. Justice Hill.concurred. the orchestra and by the difficulty of securing adequate accommo- dation for it in the place where the performances aro Lo take
aing- place. The ing and aeting, etc., do not- except, of course, in connexion with Wagnerian operas and with some operas of quite modern origin-in- volve any particular difficulties. By adopting the method of leaving the orchestra at its permanent domicile, whilst the conductor, the singera and the actors alone proceed to the actual places of performance, the difficulties referred to could be eliminated, and every small town on aurmise, and the nature of At- torney Tuttle's enquiry, are keenly provided that It possessed a suit-resented by the British crew of the able stage could be given an op- Vestris, and this was reflected in portunity of having first-class
spirited answers to Mr. Tuttle's opera performed within its own cross-questioning of the First Of precincts.-Dr. Emil Kruger,
HURRICANE TOLL.
MANY SHIPS SUFFER.
London, Nov. 19.
Many disasters to small vessels
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New York, Nov. 19.
news- The methods of certain
papers in dealing with the Vestris disaster, with violent headlines of vigorous condemnation, often based
cer, Mr. Johanon.
Subjected to a pitiless cross ex- amination, he had obylous difficulty in restraining his indignation, the blood flushing his weatherbeaten face as he answered
a rain of questions bearing on Captain Carey's conduct,
It is pointed out that neither the owners nor the officers are en- around the English coast occurred titled to be represented at the en-
during Friday's 'great gale, and
the full extent of the loss of life quiry to cross examine the witnesses
and clucidate doubtful points.- Reuter's American Service.
is not yet known."
It was learned yesterday that five of the crow of a small schooner were lost when the ves-. sel, in endeavouring to return to port on the north coast of "Angel- sey, was dashed on the rocks and wrecked. The only survivor was a boy, who was found yesterday in a weak stute and was taken aboard a pilot boat and collapsed, His condition is grave..
JAPAN'S POLICY.
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Kyoto, Nov. 19. The Government has definitely No information regarding the decided that Mr. Yada during his erew of the steamer Eltham, which present visit to Nanking shull at- was found broken in two on the tempt to settle all lasues relating Cornish coast, has been received, to the Nanking and Hankow in- Members of the crew of five ves-cidents, while the questions of Bels were washed over-board; and treaty revision, Tainan and others drowned in heavy seas, and the outstanding are to be negotiated veksels limped back to port. In a later in accordance with the de-
velopments of the situation. Light
damaged condition.
The German tag Secfork, intres ponse to wireless, calls, picked up the steamer Lenarai off Lands End, and towed the damaged ves- sel into Plymouth after a perilous Journey, during which the hawser snapped.
The Italian steamer Folgere has arrived at Falmouth with her decks swept almost clean; and thres Hfebonts for Trieste put Into Dover to land the body of a bontman killed during the heavy Baas-British Wireless.
PREMIER INDISPOSED.
BARON TANAKA ́ UNABLE TO ACCOMPANY EMPEROR.
Kyoto, Nov, 19, The Premier, Baron Tanaka, is slightly indisposed and is not ac-. companying the Emperor to Ise to-day. The bulletin says that the Premier has a pain in the chest and therefore the physicians ordered a rest to-day. The trouble has been diagnosed as angina pec- Aoris Reuter.
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Shanghal, Nov. 19. Mr Yada left for Nanking this morning-Router.
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