PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1303, 5 December 1911, Page 2

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

N IFrom Our Knot'la! Curresuondiinu.l , (, — CARTcRTON. Tim local branch of Iho Wairarapt. I 0:;(! Circle dispatch<*<l over 200 dozen crks hist wcik to tho Wellington agent, . Mr. D. Ci. Hinart. solicitor, has dii.» posed of his practice here to 111'. M. I). Mlornsb.v, and leaves at tlio end of tho week to join an established business at, 11 awei-a. The school gardens comjiotitiou uulcr ° tho nnvx-'eps of t!i'; Wuirarapn J', am' A. Sot. resulted in first nw«r<l ,<oiiia,. to the (Jladstone School, Feathert-h.n being sceoni, .and Belvedere third. OTAKI. No-Licenso advocates addressed openair meetings hero 011 .Saturday and Sunday nights, hut their reception—from a wclion of the community at least—was . rather a hostile one. On Sunday Mr. \r '-I dentity, fell down somo Btcps, sustain* lUR soinewiint pc\oie ' ... A case of cruelty to two cows nas liroujfht before the magistrate by tho police at Otnki 011 Riday. Olio of tho cows had fallen and dislocated its hip. v r s evidence defendant had ■ at first made some attempt to remody tho trouble. He then yoked the cow to .1 liorso by 1110:1 lis of a rone fastened round the cows,head, and dragged the animal from place to pl rt — in a 0t,,.W 0 it tn wt Brass to eat." Otherwise it was • stated that .lie did not attend to the animal nor protect it from the weather. Jho unfortunate boast was allowed to ' suffer ill his way for three weeks, when it died. .Another cow, which hud injured lt'clf, fp]l among tho shingle in a riverb?d, and was unable to get un. Defendant, it was allege 1, knew of" this, yet allowed tho creatures to bo (here unattended for three d.ivs, when 'it died. The' magistrate (Mr. Thomson) commented wvTPly on defendant's* Miaviour, and mulcted him in penalties and costs for > the above, and for allowing animals to remain nnburied. which amounted ap- . proximately to -CM. Tll onothcr case, Inspector Seed. of the'S.P.C.'A., prosecuted a butcher for raining a • horse to ho driven while suffering from a snre under the collar. Defendant w.ic fined 2<K. and ensts and expenses amounting t0..{3 18s. ' Mr. 'Webb, of Wellington, apnearod for tho society.