NEAR AND FAR

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 5

NEAR AND FAR

At the closing mooting of the Xoitli-e Valiev branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union there was a good attendance. Mrs D. S. Mason, who piesided, introduced Mrs Porteous, who gave an earnest address.

William Porridge, the young man ar rested in connect i<-n with the recent jewelJcrv huiglarics, ],leaded guilty to seveial chaiges of theft at llm Christchurch Polite Court ye tetduy. lie made a lengthy fitiUenntnl, in which he alleged that his own ill-health, which prevented him from working at his trade (that of a took), and the iJI-hcaitii of his wife, led him to commit the ctinie. On one charge he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, on t lie second lo one month, and to fourteen days on the third, the sentences to bo concurrent. With W. G. Thompson, he was charged with (hefi.s of jewellery, the case bring K-m.imJed till Thursday. A fair pioporlion of the early-sown grain crops in .South Canterbury are now changing ('dor, ami will he ready for the reaper earner than usual. Small birds a:o levying heavy toll on these, early maturing crops.

Two pro-wcuS ions for t-flliiig a'luller-iil;-rl 1.1 i! ■-: %\ {•!••• heard ;.l the (‘ourt ill i'ini;■ in \VH.«*rchiy. K vas shown. how-i-\-i-r, that Dm deWhuits had not adultera tic I thr jjiili;, ,mi.<J though it did not come quite up to 11ia. required standard in .solids, cmicm. evidcme was called that tho !-1 a I i-f 1:• I was too high, and that the milk fail,i many hculs often falls shorlqof iU Tim ralo i-nt-*rul a convHion la each ca-r. Lan imposed no fine beyond the dcfc;darts to pay Court c, us \;lii< hj Uere 7fi in each case.

Shearers say that the present is one of tho last se.'bons for early shearing in South Canterbury that they have experienced for many years, ami a. number of .'duds have finished. On account, it is presumed of poor grass food, the wool ha.s piovcd latlur tough and malted.