CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17037, 10 May 1923, Page 3

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. Sentences of five years imprisonment with hard labour were imposed on Ernert Nichols and Edward Myers who were found guilty in the Supreme Court vesterdav of having robbed Francis Leonard Chatwin ol €O, and v-ith having used violence towards Chatwin. Nichols and Myers wore also declared to be habitual criminals. The informations* laid by the -North Canterbury Accilimatisatiion Society alleging breaches of the Fisheries Act were dealt with in the Magistrate’s Court vesterday. For stroke-hand n C Joseph Pollock was fined CJ and his son. Harold Pollock. £2. For ohstrui'ting the ranger each was fined 40s and for fishing without a license Harold Pollock was fined £3. The Canterbury A. and P.. Assoc.a iion has decided' to write to the Board (.f Trade drawing attention to the disparity between the wholesale and retail prices of beef. When a letter wn, read from the Meat Board referring to the publicity campaign to induce people to eat beef, the president (Mr K. F. Alexander), said the price at. Addington had dropped to Ins or 20s per 1001 b. but in the butchers’ shops At an inquest held- yesterday by Mr FT. V. Widdowson. S.M.. District Coroner. touching the death of Joseph i' . Gallagher, who was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital on May 4. in a semi-conscious condition, a verdict ol death from coma. resulting from oedema of the brain, following broncho-