The long spell of dry weather is having a serious effect in the back counfcrv in Poverty Bay, and farmers are anxious for their sheep, lest a frost should come. The flatri are wearing a brighter appearance, although there, is no body in the grass. Altogether, present prospects am exceedingly gloomy for tie i-oming season. A prisoner eumplained at tlit .Supreme Court in Wellington that a letter sent to him addressed to Mount Eden gaol had been readdressed to him in the same This, he said, ruined his chanc* of making t- fresh start. Mr Justice Cliapman njrreed that it was not. right to a letter to a timeexDired prisoner in the way alleged, and the prison authorities should he informed. It was a matter of which notice might be taken by the Minister. The chief gaoler at Wellington states that there is a. role nexer to readdxesß letters ex.pept in a ntw- eardopa. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 8
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154Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 8
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