SOUTH CANTERBURY.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18635, 9 March 1926, Page 3

SOUTH CANTERBURY.

TIMARU. Social and Personal Mrs G. S. Ciay (Seaview terrace) is in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Simon MaeKenzie (Raincliff) have returned from a few d3j-s visit to Christchurch. Miss Beatrice Webster (Xelson terrace) returned to Dunedin pn Saturday. Miss Gwen McPhail, who was visiting Timaru, returned to Dunedin on Saturday. Mr and Mrs "vT. Thomas (North street) intend to leave Timaru in April, on an extended tour of Canada, America, and England. Mr and Mrs Cyril Hughes (Auckland) spent the week-end in Timaru, on their return from Dunedin, and motored to Christchurch yesterday. Mr and Mrs J. H. Fisher, who were at Fairview with Mrs Lewis Mathias, left yesterday for the north, en route for England. Miss Hilda Chudley (Wellington), who stayed with Mrs G. E. M. Jones (Evans street) on her way back from Dunedin, motored to Christchurch on Saturday. Miss Ella Tripp, who was with Mrs Hope, "Tumanako," has returned to Orari gorge. Mr/and Mrs "W. J. "Walter and family (Christchurch), who have been visit- , ing the Dunedin Exhibition, called at Timaru on their way north yesterday. The Weather. The weather during the week-end was glorious, and on Sunday the temperature was SO degrees in the shade. In the evening however the sky became overcast and rain threatened. During, the night a light southerly cleared the sky and yesterday broke fine and warm! At mid-day, the atmosphere was oppressively hot, but in j the early afternoon the heat was tempered by a light easterly breeze. Wilful Damage. As a result of an exciting episode which occurred in the jewellery establishment of Charles G. Morgan, on Saturday, when a man went into the shop and hurled two watches from a tray through a glass show ease, a charge of wilful damage was laid against Herbert Brown at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. It was alleged that the damaged two rolled gold watches valued at £6 15s and £4 15s, respectively, one electro-plate teapot, valued at £3 2s 6d, and one plate glass showcase, valued at £5, the total value being £l9 12s 6d, the property of Charles Morgan. He was further charged with resisting a constable in the execution of iis duty. Senior-Sergeant Fahey asked for a remand to allow the accused to be medically examined. A remand until Saturday was granted. Charges of Assault. At the Timaru Magistrate's Court, yesterday, before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., three young men, William Drennan (24), Harold Drennan (21), and James Sutton (27), were charged with assaulting Frederick AVakefield and Daniel Naughton, at Pareora East on Saturday night. All three pleaded guilty, , Sonior-Sergeant Fahey stated that the men went to a boarding-house at Pareora East, about 8 o'clock on Saturday night, and found the chief cook sitting in the kitchen reading a paper. They accosted him and knocked him down, and also knocked • Naughton down, the latter having come ,in to assist the cook. ; William Drennan and Sutton were arrested, but the younger Drennan came in and garc himself up. Constable- Hammond; of St. Andrew's, stated that he was called to Pareora by the proprietor of the boarding-house, and as a result of. information received, arrested Drennan. and Sutton. .While tho altercation was on, two men, Green and. Naughton, went in to help stop the row, when Sutton struck Naughton from behind, smashing ,hia -false teeth. . Asked if he had. anything to say, William Drennan said that he wasn't the first into the kitchen, as there was some "trouble there when they arrived. The Magistrate said that he could not differentiate between the _ men. Each would be fined £5,. or in de--fault, one month's imprisonment with hard labour. An order would also be made for £2 10s to be paid, to Naughton out of Sutton's fine. GERALDINE. On Sunday the Kev. Harold Purchas, in the presence of a large congregation dedicated a beautiful stained glass window, placed in the eastern end of the chancel of the Pleasant Valley church, and erected "to the glory of God, and in memory of Ethel Harriet Moffatt," by her friend Mrs Burdon, of "Parkhurst," Woodbury. The window was designed and executed in England, by the late Mrs Moffat's niece, Miss Wall, whose father designed and executed several windows for the Gloucester Cathedral. The newly dedicated window is of two lights with crosspiece, the colours being very rich, the bottom part being in opalescent glass, in square leaded panes. The window > was greatly admired.