CANTERBURY.
The severe weather of Saturday and Sunday, 17th and 18th inst., caused considerable losses among newly shorn sheep on the Peninsula. Replying to telegrams from the local members of Parliament and others, the Minister of Justice says that he does not think that anything has been disclosed to warrant his interference with the carrying out of the sentence of 14 days' imprison -
ment imposed o« Mrs Long for cruelty tc her step-children. Charles Bowden, a milkman, was charged at Lyttelton on Thursday with Laving caused tue aeath of May Violet Brown, about ~27 - years -of- age, the wife of a wharf labourer at Lyttelton. He was remanded for eighl days. An inquest is to be held at the Christchurch Hospital this afternoon. Tin assault is alleged to have been ' committed on November 9, and- the -woman died yes terday. The Timaru Presbyterian congregatioi have unanimously carried a resolution ir, favour of individual ctips at the communior service. The minister, the Rev. W. Gillies, put his foot down on the suggestion tc intioduce voluntaries and anthem singin; by the choir.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 23
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