CANTERBURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2686, 6 September 1905, Page 29

CANTERBURY.

Three miliunen, who were charged with having sold impure milk, were fined by the magistrate on the 29th. In tho case of one of the defendants, who liad purchased nvlk from another dairyman, a._ fine of Is -was inflicted, the magistrate pointing our, however, that apparatus for testing the milk could be obtained at a trifling cost. In the other cases the defendants were fined £3 and £2 respectively. For having procured liquor for a. prohibited person a man was fined £5. A woman was charged at ChristchurcJi with having worked a herse whilst it was suffering from six open, sores. The defendant stated that she had put a sack under the collar, and thought it would not affect the animal. The defendant was fined £2.

The Canterbury branch of the Navy League is sending Home by the Tongariro an anchor designed out of New Zealand evergreens for the centennial celebration of the battle of Trafalgar.

James Lyndhurst, who admitted in the lower court three charges of having uttered gilded farthings as half sovereigns, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by Mr Justice Denniston. The Crown Prosocutcr stated that there was no evidence? to show that the accused was connected with a gang of coiners, and it was not known whether he had gilded the coins himself or not.

Sir Joseph Ward, who arrived in Oliristcbtirch on Saturday, stated that he hoped the system of reserving f^eats in railway carnages would be in full working order in two months' time. On the subject of the International Exhibition, Sir J. G. Ward! suggested it might bb possible to get a. member of the Royal Family as representing 1 the King to open the Exhibition. A Maori named Raniera Erihana. of Otakou, was charged at the Ka-iapoi Court on Monday with supplying whisky to eight Native women resident at Tuahiwi on July 4. i Counsel for the accused stated l-hat in consequence of a person being dangerously ill at the pa the Maoris decider! to obtain a tohunga from the North Island. It was part of the ceremony to give out a small quantity of whisky to each one present in the room with the patient when the tohunga began his incantations. Not half of a & flask of whisky was used. The matter was a technical one, and he applied to the magistrate to refer ifc to the Maahanui Maori Council. Mr T. E. Green, a. member of the council present, asked that the court should deal with the question, as the council could only puni=.h persons for taking liquor into a pn. The magistrate adjourned the case for a fortnight to ascertain whether the Maori Council could dear with the case.