CRUELTY TO HORSES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1908, Page 8

CRUELTY TO HORSES.

[by Ti:i>rG».vrH.— rßEss association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S*M., this morning, J. H. Woolridge (owner) and Stanley Woolridge (driver) were fined* £10 and costs and £5 and costs lespectively, or in default four weeks' and two weeks' imprisonment, for cruelty to hoises. The Magistrate said the case was the worst he had ever seen.

The mails whirh left Wellington per the Wimmera on the 17th January and connected at Sydney with the Brindisi mails per the It. M.S. Victoiia arrived in London on the night of the 21st inst., due date The Conciliation Board will sit in Wellington on 2nd March for the purpose 'f faking evidpnc in connection with the industrial dispute between the Wellington Gei-eral Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers and the country employe's. Canipared with the award at present ir: force at Wellington, fewer Lours Der week and higher wages are c laimi A by the union f 0..' country workers The hospital authorities reported that Wm. Petherick, a tram conductor, who vas severely injured on Saturday, was progressing satisfactorily to-day ■Mr. T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, leaves for Mangaweka to-morrow, to attend the Horticultural and Industrial Society's Show in that township. Bishop Williams, of Waiapu, and Miss C. M. Williams are amongst those who have booked passages by the Corinthic, which sails on Saturday for London. "We have lately been nearing such a lot about the difficulty of keeping milk cans clean, and tho trouble in getting dairy attendants to do all that they might do," writes a correspondent of The Post ; "that I am moved to ask why a brigade of women should not be engaged to clean the cans. By heredity, as well as training, they would be specially suited for the work, and the lurking' death in the milk-can would then bo wholly an imaginary terror." The death is announced of Sir Edward Berkeley Manse), tenth baronet of Old Catton Hall Norwich "tii in succeerftd by his nephew, Courtenay Cecil Mansel. A very curious situation arose in leg-ard to the baionetcy sornj twenty years ago (says a London paper). In 1838 the father and mother of the late baronet entered into an irregular marriage -r Scottish form, and after nine years' cohabitation were remarried wiLh religious rites. Sir Edward was the eldest son of the earliei cohabitation, and. « son born under the later condition assumed I the title upon the death of the ninth ' baronet in 1883, being himself succeeded unquestioned, by Mt. Comtanay Cecil Mansel. From '1882 to 1903 'he latter held the title as eleventh baronet, but in t.he latter year his uncle's claim was put forward, and wa^' ratified by the Court of Session thiee years Sir i Coivrtenay Gscil Mauson thus now holds the title "for the second time as eleventh baronet.' The Press Association telegraphs from Timaru, that the price of butter has made a further advance locally to Is ; 5d per lb.' ! Eight geese- were sent' round to Milford by Mr. Reginald Day for liberation !at Lake Ada. While on his trip overland to Milford, Mr. Day was struck" with the suitability of the place for wild geese and the abundance of food, j and hs has made ararngemonts vvith the Tourist Department tliat Mr. Suther- ! land, of Milford, shall take charge of ; the birds on arrival and set them free. The Hinemoa took geete from Bluff last week. Under the present scale, girls of 13, boarcl< '1 out by (he South Australian State Child) en's Department, are piid Is weekly, of which 9d is deposited in the Savings Bank in the child's name I><Ihe department, i li.- employer having also to clothe the chile Pay of Is- 6u vas to be made to gioii of 14, of which Is 1-g 1 was banked. I'nder tl.e ne%v scale" girls of 14 are to receive 2s of which Is 6d is 111 1 be bxntoed ; girls of ll r j ."••e to be paid 3s, of which 2s is to bo banked ; from 16 to 17 the oM late of 5s has been raised to 7s, of which Is is to be banked girls if 17 to 18 trc *o get Bs, .'iftead of 6s ; gnls of 19 ere to get 9s, instead of 7s ; and i?irls of 20 will get 10s, insteid of Bs. In each caso Is 'veek'y will bo banked The iote of wage for boys has also been raised. On the Karori Bowling green on Saturday matches were played as follows: Williams, Newcombe, Taplin, Campbell (skip), 25 ; Dacenl, Rnine, Dickeison, Lockett (skip), 13. Senior Bowls — Cooper 25 and 32; Cox, 16 and 15. The preference of h ibitual offenders for magistrates supposed to be lenient in their views and sentences is natural, but there are othei ways, it would seem by which th.3y con iindvnr themsehoi- to those with whom they have to dea' (saye the Sydney Telegrapn). In his valedictory remarks respejti'ig Mr. Isaacs, in the Balin.iiu Court, Ml.M 1 . J. ) Ber-dcr, solicit ■)■•, made the (.uf-toiraiy leferenees to that gentlemen's popularity with s.ll l'avi'-uj business in the court. Even thosp whom he had had occasion to .punish from time to time, Mr. Boeder said, tvere among his admirers, and, if 'they could judge by an incident he had witness.' 1 1 hnnscli were- also hi^. irierds. Waiting in tho" precincts of the court one day was a young man about to bs brought befcne the Bench for "language,"' ."loitering.') "riotous behaviour, ' or some other of the custo:na:y offences i.f this class. To him enter a friend, who told the accused with a joyful air that it was "all right — Icaaca was on the Bench." The anxious one asked hopefully if he was "an easygoing bioko?" "My- oath he ain't," said the friend, "but he's the best beak us comes to this court. Lor bli' me! I'd r,ith,er be fined a quid by Isaacs than let off Ky either of tho other Johnnies, as comes here." Mr. Isaacs joined hearti'.v in the laugh, and seemed to appreciate the compliment. In the best restaurants and cafoe of New York smoking by ladies has .lii'i'rto boon sternly prohibited, but, coniuir, .icing with the celebration of New Year's i.\e, several have lelavpd the unwritten law, which (say.> the Telegraph's correspondent) will &oon become virtually a dead letter.

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