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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9846, 12 September 1903, Page 4

Extract from a Grey mouth* paper's account of a fancy dress "ball: — 'The ladies carried off the honors for the few costunfes that were wora" J A member of the Gfere branch of the Farmers' Union, stated last week tliat lie !)lanted about 2000 trees every year ,t bat le had gone m. for the wrong sort— -macrocarpa and pinus insignis. His plantation was practically valueless; wher.«a* if he had planted larch and similar tret «> it would have been worth, nearly £100\}A. R. Maltby, of the Albion Hotel, Wangaaui, was fined £5 and costs on Saturday for permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises, and with selling liquor to an intoxicated person. In the witness box, the defendant said he did not know that there was a conditiom m his lease as to forfeiture hi the eveni. of one conviction. By the Bench : Do you not know the conditions of your lea«se ? Witness: No,- sir. The Bench a Do you mean that you do nob know the terms of your lease? Witness: No, sir 5 I never saw it. The Bunch : Was it not read over to you? Witness: No, ?,t was npt read over to me. I have a fcopy of it m my hotel. *