AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 41

AUCKLAND.

The relatives of the late Mrs Horsnell, of Christchurch, who was killed by falling off a tramcar at Onehunga in June, have lodged a claim for £1000 damages against the Auckland Electric Tramways Company. The case will be heard at the Supreme Court. Mr H. B. Dobbie, a former resident of Whangarei, now of Auckland, has given 120 acres of rare native bush to Whangarei as a scenic reserve. At the Police Court, Daniel Ryan, a butcher, was fined £2, and coste, for cruelty. He ill-treated five pigs by splitting their ears • Mr Ciitten, S.M.. .said that 45 butchers sent pi?s to the abattoirs, andi the defendant was the only one who found it necessary to adopt earsplitting as a method of identification. He was of opinion that the defendant had. acted cruelly, though perhaps unintentionThe new arrivals are chiefly tradesmen, with a few farm and domestic servants. Mr Cutfcen, S.M., fined A. Leonard, dairy proprietor, £3 and costs in Tespect to the sale of milk from which a proportion of cream had been removed, holding that the shop kept by Mrs Kelly, from which the milk was sold, was a branch of defendant's business. It was announced in the Suprems Court on the 9th that a settlement had been arrived at in an interesting case which had been listed for hearing— that of Florence Campbell Smith v. Cecil de Pass, a claim for £1000 damage;, for alleged breach of promise of marriage. The following prisoners, who had pleaded guilty in the lower court, were sentenced at the Supreme Court on the 9th inst. : — Thomas Herbert Ellison (17), theft of money from postal packets and forgery, one yeai's hard labouT ; Alexander Cameron, obtaining money by false pretences, two yeaTS ; Alexander Hog.?, theft from a dwelling, 18 months ; William Dickson. theft from a dwelling, two years; J. L.' Winter, theft from a dwelling, one year.