MAGISTERIAL.
MAGISTRATES' COURT.
CHRISTCHURCH. This Dat.
(Before J. V. Eo3B and F. Hobbs, Esqs.)
Stealing Timbek. — A ragged little boy named William Randle was charged with stealing timber valued at 96", from J. Coulter's boarding - house, Manchester street. Pieces of wood had been missed from time to time, and the boy was seen about the yard. The piece found in the house of the prisoner's mother was recognised by some marks on it. The boy said that he got it from another boy. His mother used to send him out to get pieces of wood. . The Bench, considering the boy had been locked up all ysstevday, dismissed him with a caution.
A member of one of the moat illustrious families in Austria, Prince Alfred von Wrede, has startled the nerves of the aristocracy by setting up as a greengrocer aud fruiterer at Perctholdsdortf, near Aienna. The Prince, having become ruined, has decided that, in order to make money, a good trade is better than a small Government appointment,- and he has sensibly decided to attend to his business in person.
An American paper asserts that in the btate of Georgia "there is 'loafing' enough done to bring on a famine in a section of the country less favoured by JNature ; and one may well believe the statement, if it be truo that this State ocmtiMn8 i " one hundred tuoueand ablebodied idlers."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6033, 15 September 1887, Page 3
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231MAGISTERIAL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6033, 15 September 1887, Page 3
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