GHRISTCHURCH COURT GASES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1100, 12 April 1911, Page 8

GHRISTCHURCH COURT GASES.

Chrlstchurch, April 1L A dairyman was fined £3 and cost? this morning for selling milk with less thau tlio standard percentage of buttorfat, Mr. IT. W. Bishop, S.M., said that if defendant could not see that the milk was kept up to standard lift had belter get out of the business. Frederick King, charged with failing to register a printing press, and with printing a pamphlet without an imprint, was fined £5 on each charge. Tlip pamphlet invited readers to send Ids. 6<l. for a certain valuable recipe. The magistrate characterised the recipe as simply disgusting, and condemned tho business strongly. In an affiliation ease before the Court this morning the magistrate made an order under Section 73 of tho Destitute Persons Act, 1910, which permits an order to bo made without service of a summons when a defendant is out of tho Dominion or conceals his whereabouts.

TOWN CLERK'S FINE RECORD. New Plymouth, April 11. The Town Clerk, Mr. F. T. Bellringer, was stated at tho Borough' Council meeting to have established a record which must be considered as unique at it is satisfactory. For (ho past three years every penny of rates and rents duo to the New Plymouth .Borough Council lias been collected befoi'o tho end of tho financial year. The municipal electric light department made a profit for the year of £1860, and the earnings from, public and private lighting and power for the year amounted to £4428 Is. 7d. INTEREST IN ELECTIONS. Tirnaru, April 11. A good deal of interest is being manifested in the municipal elections, and some feeling is being shown over a refusal by / tho returning officer to placo a booth near tho harbour for the convenience of wharf end store hands There are about 5000 names on the roll. MAN INJURED IN AN AFFRAY. Gisbornc, April 10. James Blanch was seriously injured ii an affray on Saturday night, and lies in the hospital in an unconscious condition. At the Magistrate's Court to-day James Kerr Easlon was remanded until Wednesday on a charge ef assaulting Blanch. BRUTAL AFFAIR. Blenheim, April 10. On Saturday evening an old woman mimed Julia' Grooves, who was livint; alone at Grovctewn, was brutally assaulted. A man entered the rottngo where the woman was in bod, and MtucU her in the face with his fist Uron the victim Fcrcaminp out it is allege;! he attempted to strangle her. When help arrived lh< man had escaped.