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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12583, 21 January 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

Moran and Cato, the well-known bourne grocers, were charged recently with selling condensed milk which had abstracted from it 90 per cent, of its original fatty solids. It was stated that there was no suggestion that defendants knew the vile quality of the stuff they were, selling. Almost every particle of nutriment had been taken from the milk in question:; One might as well murder an infant right away as Starve it on such stuff. The medical inspector to the. Board .of Health said-the milk'would be admirable for the purposes of baby farmers. 'He had never come across a' worse sample of condensed milk. Dr. t assistant inspector, said he cou4d not recommend any food, moie calculated to murder infants than the milk produced. Defendants were fined £5. ..

A young rative woman, Martha- Tainui, was before the Police Court last week, charged with the theft of rings and some clothing-..front.--Mrs Levy, • a woman at whose house she was staying. Intelligent, and, fairly weil' educated, Martha, Tainui has had a- remarkable career of crime, though s'ae is only about 30 years of age. During the last 16 years she has been convicted no less than 40 times, the - offence committed including housebreaking, vagrancy, false pretences, and theft. ~ Her weakness seems, to be for representing at- leading shops that she is the daughter: of some well-known squatter, and obtaining goods from them on the ground that . she is expecting a remittance from her father in a few days. Si.e has the faculty of telling a good story, and generally introduces the names of several well-to-do people. fehe sometimes poses as a student of Victoria College, with ..parents in the country, or lodges at a" respectable house, makes herself, agreeable, and endeavours to borrow money ■from her fellow lodgers, generally haying some plausible pretext. The police look upon Tier as incorrigible. ' ; Accused asked for a chance, saying she had been": under the influence of drink, and promising to reform. " Putting me in prison does no good," she added, "it only makes me worse." The chairman said the Bench were inclined to be lenient afc this time of the year, but this ivas not a case to which ieniency could be extended. It was not a matter of drunkenness with the -accused, and-the only thing that the justices could do was to send her to gaol for six months. " Thank you," said the accused, "I will do worse when I come out."