SOUTHERN COURTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 111, 11 May 1915, Page 7

SOUTHERN COURTS.

' (By Tele£r»ir!i. —Prets Association.) I A TKN YEARS' SKXTEXCE. (HRISTCHI'RCn, Mon.la.v. jAt til" Mipr.-Die Court to daj, 1 Em.tmu'l Kirily, a forciinpr. carao up [ for senti-ric un a of incest, lie ' wae sentenced l»y Mr .lu<tipo Uenniston | Jto t•• ii years' inipri-onmcnt. j CIIARGK AIiAIXPT OU\R(iYMA>f. ( HKlSTrillßril. tli-- .lay. . At the Supreme Court tn-ilav thp trial! |~p.iie,l of William I.VorjJe Masiin. for-I j merly a MctlinHiFt niinistor. at Koxton. | .on two eliaj-pp.s of indecency in l»> j Hot:ink-al tlanlons. A FALSE DJXJLARATION. HAAYERA. tlii? day. I !In li.p Magistrate - !! Court Richard 'Wright wae lined £n for having signed 1 I a falee declaration rnidor thp L<>>r>t;ativi; : Act. Defendant, who was on the Kprmont | roll, voted at Normanby. in Patca electoral district, on thp general oloction ' rlay. and finned a declaration that hie name djd not appr-ar on any other roll. i FTVK YEARS , IMPRISONMENT. I CHRlSininini. Monday. | j At the Supreme Court today. Hector | I Jlol>?an, for breaking and rnterinjr and I thett. was sentenced to live years' ira ' 1 pru-onment «ith hard labour. The pri- ! I soniT rerpnUy raaic Australia, \ and upon him was found a cprtificate of ' prolialion from IVntridgc <iaol. 11 i-* \ ictorian record showed nine convic- ] tions. He was released in .Melbourne in | March, and arrived in \\ elliniton on i April 2. Up came f> Christchurch on April ii. and romiiiitted the offence on j the following day.

I '< Another proof of the extent to whic'j . Australia haa suffered through drought, a drought the sprioiinnase of which has been overshadowed in the popular mind by the war, is to be found in the fart that the Stale of Victoria is importing ; close upon i'J.fiOO tons of fodder. Most 1 ' o", this is bring brought all the way from j San FratuUsco. About one-third is lucerne hay, and this remainder oaten and whe'aten hay. The eewt of the imiiorted fodder, landed, will be from £7 10/ to £!) a ton, and the Government will sell it to nnceanitoufi farm-era at bare coftt. but as all who want some of this fodder : cannot be supplied preference will be i "ivon in order of application. This indicate* a pretty bad state of affairs for people ensaped in important primary industries, fn New Walfta mat- , tor? are about as hail. The (lovornment 'ip acrjuirinjr what it ran n( local snpjilie= I for farmers who arc womt off in thn matter of fodder for their stork, lmt i not lirarlv flioilgli i« ohtninaltle locally. mid thore reems nothing for it but to ! follow at once the example of Victoria ami import from abroad. The Auckland Fellinongow. Tanners. isoaf. \V.>rkiT«. iind t;ener.il Tannery KinnlOVfPs' dispute will be dealt with by a Cimieil of Conciliation under the presidency of Mr. T. Harlr (Jiles. ( onciliation Commiseioner. at hie room.-* in the Covernment Buildings to-morrow morning. The for the employer? arf \[ rfl ,, r? . .lo.hn Astley. K. Wa.rnoek, anti S. Wine, and, for the union. Messr?. W. MeKnight, H. Harliek. and P. Mark*. Mr. ; Wright of the Kmployer.-.' Association, i will "conduct the cast for the employer*.