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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2788, 1 March 1882, Page 3

At the Court this morning, before B Woollcombe and F. LeCren Esq.’s J.P.'s, two inebriates, one a female, were fined 5a with the alternative of 48 hours imprisonment. The female paid the fine, the other •'took it out.” An information against A. White charging him with allowing a horse to wander in the streets was dismissed, defendant being cautioned. Charles C.' Fobel, alias French Charlie, was charged under the Vagrant Act with soliciting alms, and the offence being proved he was sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment with hard labor. We remind our readers that Mr Denton gives his first geological lecture this evening the subject of which is “ The fiery beginning of i iif Planet.” The brief synopsis given in the advertisement and handbills shows that the lecturer goes back a long way for his starting point,—to when the earth was a " Sun to the Moon that then basked in its smile, (should.not “basked” be “ baked”?) and travels down the stream of time till the “smile” has left its face and the wrinkles of age are strongly marked. We have nor had a lecturer on scientific subjects in Timaru, at any rate for a long time, and are curious to see what amount of interest is taken in such subjects here, ot which the delivery of the lectures will furnish a rough test.