CONDENSED NEWS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17216, 6 December 1923, Page 6

CONDENSED NEWS

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. The heavy traffic of motor lorries laden with the wool clip from the stations. passing through Leithfield, continues to increase. The public installation and institution of the Edith Gavell (Rebekah) Lodge. No. 36.. Rakaia, took place on Thursday. Many suggestions ns to the future policy of the Advance Ashburton Association were made at a meeting on Tuesday night, but consideration of them was deferred till a later meeting. In moving the adoption of the annual report and balance-sheet at the

Canterbury Philosophical Institute’s annual meeting last evening. Dr C. Chilton expressed the hope that the institute would continue its investigations, during the coming year, into the artesian wells of Christchurch.

Hugh Owen pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon to having committed an indecent act, and further to stealing from the person of John Kennedy £4 in money and a parcel containing clothing valued at £6 15s. On both .charges he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

On a charge of assault and robbery on Norman Thompson. in that be robbed him of a watch and chain and a sovereign case, valued at £lB. Herbert John Newton was remanded to December 5 in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Bail was fixed at self £-50 and one surety of £-30.

The extraordinarily large amount of 6.070.974 gallons of water was used by residents of the borough of Ashburton for the two weeks ended Monday. Only .98 inch of rain fell at Ashburton during November, when there were 2421 hours of sunshine.

The following temporary transfers were granted at the quarterly meeting of the Lyttelton Licensing Committee yesterday:—Empire Hotel. Lyttelton. O. H. Candy to S, Tulloch ; Ocean ViewHotel, Governor's Bay. T. Well wood to C. P. Holland: Cave Rock Hotel. Sumner. deceased estate Mrs R. Kennedy to C. R. Dobson.

It was reported to the Rangiora Committee for the Hokitika Exhibition on Tuesday, that the number of exhibits received had been more than anticipated. The bulk of the goods would be dispatched for the Coast tomorrow. The balance would be sent away on Tuesday in charge of Mr \Y. Smith, who was to arrange the display of goods in the Rangiora bay. All the available space for Rangiora exhibits had been taken up.

An employee on the office staff of Booth Macdonald and Co-. Thomas Keeling Hiokenbotliam, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to forging the name of J. Wilson on an endorsement to a cheque for £22 18s 10d on the Bank of Australia, and also with forging the name of J. Wilson to a receipt. The evidence was that Mrs Jane Wilson had deposited a sum of money with the firm in January. 1917. Subsequently she withdrew the sum of £3OO. leaving £22 18s lOd to he.r credit. The balance of the money was withdrawn on December 7. 1921. Hiekenbotham had admitted the forgeries. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

" New Zealand's Glacial Epochs and Croll’s Theory of Ice Ages *’ was a paper read by Mr John Hardcastle at the Canterbury Philosophical Institute last evening. The author claimed that Croll’s theory was a satisfactory theory, if amended by the incorporation of knowledge, gained since Croll’s dav of the character of Antarctic “ blizzards.” The climates to-day of different regions of the world outside the tropics were due to inter-action between direct sun-heat at different, seasons and the stores of cold in the nolar regions, the latter being replenished during winter. The Antarctic regions were colder than the Arctic all the year round, because the winters in the Southern Hemisphere were seven davs longer and are spent three and a quarter million miles further from the sun than those of the Northern Hemisphere.