LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17701, 1 March 1923, Page 11

LYTTELTON NEWS.

personal. Mr 7. Straw has xetuisea feon • holiday at Stewart Island. , Superintendent W. G-. Carson and M.r W. Crocker, of the 1001 l Silt Wt for . Dunedin yeiterday to attend. th« Tfaitsd Fire Brigades demonstration. Buperintendaiit Carson will judgv attho demonstration, and Mr Crooker Is a delegate to this Conference. Mr B. Fenton, foreman of tiw brigade, will leave for Dunedin to-dayarul will also act u fudge. ' M Mr B. R. Ourtfs haa rehrmaa noon •►healday at Hanmor. Ba&faiL He total ntnfaU for PsMttasy wi 1M inches. Bain fell on eight days, : the maximum fall baing recorded for the 34 fcouta ending at noon on February 6th, vrtien toe. gauge . showed ,G&. indhea. points fell during the' 24 koursi eroding at soon yesterday. Band Cofacert. . | The Bedfern (Sydney) Band, wliloh So , turning" from the Dnnndin contest, ;phyed a short programme on the rotunda r la;t , evening. In spite of the chilly weatluir, the musio was much enjoyed by those present. Magistrate's Oonzt. Mr H. Y. WiddowSon, S.M., pM&lsd at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Joseph . Purdon. who pleaded ffuiVly ,to having discharged a firearm, to wit, a. pea rifle, so close to a publicplace as-to endanger" passers-by, was fined 20b and costs, which bod been smashed by a bulliit. and ordered to pay the coitVof a \rindoW James Joseph Gallagher and James Day were charged with threatening behavionrroft February 17th in a public plaoe, .wbeiflbr a breach of the peaoe was occasioned, i G*l> lagher pleaded guilty, and Day pltoded gui'ty under provocation. Sergeant, J. W. McHolm ; stated that the mein had engiffed in a fight on' the dote Mentioned/, «Ad' both were bleeding when Constable B.i A. 'lrwia arrived on the seens. „ Gallagher ly under tlio influence of Jiquor. ' Day ntplained that Gallagher was the aggroeior, as he struck first, while witness omy ftcte? in self-defence The Bench fined G«!itegher 40s,- in default, 14 days' .imprisonment, 1 and Day 10a and coats. 1 V«o Williams (Mr W. F. proceeded against her 'hueband, William Owe® Williams, •for arrears of maintenance amount'ing to £2 10s." Defendant was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, iink«( he paid the amount forthwith. i ; In Thomas v. Thomas, sn application' for a separation order and guardianshfp of Uie 1 children, on the gTounds of persiltent cruelty, a remand was granted for a' fortnight, on the application of Mr W, F. ®raoy, for the defendant, in order to. altar a defence to be prepared. The defendant was ordered to -pay £2 10s per week mamwMle i.nd taj keep away from hi* wife's hero*., :