CANTERBURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 30

CANTERBURY.

At the Magistrate's Court Matthew Barnett was fined £5 for having trespassed on the Ricoarton racecourse on April 24, and for neglecting to leave after being warned. On a similar charg-a T. (iodfrey was fined fis. A, Hunt, (GJ. Birchfield, W. Scott, F. Clarke, and W. Livingstone were each fined £2 for a similar offence at Plumpton Park on Jyne 10. W. J. Black was fined £5. The cases against two men were dismissed, as they vtgvg acting as clerks to bookmakers, and the regulations do not refer to persons so acting. T?he Hospital Beard decided to ask theCanterbury members of Parliament and two naem-bers of "the board to deputationise the Government" regarding the necessity for a 'home in each ' Island for chronic and incurable oases. Tho , students responsible for the recent breaches of'discipline'at Canterbury College were dealt w'th' at a special meeting of the. Professorial' on Friday. Four students implicated "in enteirmg the girls' cottage -and nine in tampering wiih the college clock on Degree Day were <-ach fined £1 and ordered, to make good the damage done. Those students responsible for the .destruction-of the tables and the locker doors in the students' room were ordered to make good the damages. Th© Timaru Harbour Board, on the advice of the resident _ engineer supported by the engineers of the L.jtfcelton and Otago Harbour -Boards, who were consulted, resolved to order from Fleming'and Ferguson,.Paisley, a ladder dredge with 1000-ton hopper. The cost, as per offer of builders, is £26,600 delivered at Port Chalmers. James Lyndhursfc was committed for trial on a charge of passing counterfeit halfsovereigns, tho coins used being gilded Edward VII farthings. The ownership of the trotting hoiTe Northcote, by Rothschild out of an Emerson niare, was the subject of a case at the Alagi-strate's Court, when Colin Morrison claimed possession from David Douglas, or £80 in lieu of possession, or in the alternative £86 18s, cost of keeping and training. Morrison slated that Douglas gavo him the horse when a colt and when not worth more than £s'. He understood that the colt was given to him for services rendered to Douglas in training a horse for him. Defendant stated that'he did not givo the horse to plaintiff. 1 He handed it to him to train, and in return lilaintiff was to receive whatever prize-money the horse won. r rhc Magistrate said the evidence was very contradictory, but on the facts lie had no hesitation in giving judgment for defendant.