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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 June 1924, Page 17 (Supplement)

In the. days when sailing ships took Home South Canterbury’s wool, and surplus wheat, they in nearly all cases arrived here in ballast. Before the North Mole was made the ships anchored in the roadstead a considerable distance out and threw overboard their ballast before coming in. The Courts, Magisterial and Supreme, supplied pabulum for the Press from the first. Until a gaol was built at Timaru in ’72 all cases for the Supreme Court were tried at Christchurch, and the reports of these were copied from the Christchurch papers. From ’72 onward the Supreme Court sittings were held here, but the famous Hall poisoning case in ’SO was dealt with at Christchurch, as it was feared that feeling against the accused was too strong in his home town. A reporter was sent up to ensure getting a full report of the trial.