INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13973, 6 August 1909, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, ;August 5. At the Police Court Daiiiol Kyan, a butcher, was fined\£2 and costs for having cruelly ill-treated- live pigs by splitting their ears.,. Mr Cutter., S.M., said that forty-five butchers sent thenpigs to the abattoirs, and defendant was the only one who found it necessary to adopt'ear-splitting as a method of 'identification. He was of opinion that defendant acted cruelly, though perhaps •unintentionally J ; ';•• ■'- Another batch of.immigrants totalling 140 arrived fropi England by; the Devon late last night. Fprty-eight of the number are for, Auckland, .15 for Wellington and 25, for Port Chalmers. The new arrivals are chiefly tradesmen, with a few farm .and, domestic servants.

WELLINGTON, Ansnst. r,. Arthur YVimsett was torday committed for trial on charges connected with the robberies from the parcels department of the Wellington post office." .....,-, The third engineer- of the. Manuka was charsred at the nolice court with bringing in a set. of furs w:ithout paying duty. After hearing evidence for the prosecution, the point was raised that the goods were not' 'dutiable, and the case was dismissed- without prejudiee. Tt is rnderstond. that another information will he'laid; " \

CHRTSTCTIURCII, Angust H. As a resulb of the incuest on a child "amerl Meavers which Was held yester<l'tv Station Sergeant Johnston and Constable Jnckson made some onauiries rert-nrdincr the father. Investigations reveoled the fact • tlwi ;he hnd been carried I'vi.'c and had four children hy his Gr*+. wile and one child, hy his sec-n«-i wifn. Tie cave his name as John WinWord and was arrested:oil a charge of bigamy. •' •• . ■ "•-'.' ••■':'_■.