CRIMINAL SESSIONS. TIMARU, August 21.
At the Supreme Court fco-day before Judge Ward, the accused in the first three cases colled pleaded guilty. John Butsell Morrison was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for false pretences. Prisoner was a very old offender, but His Honor was evidently not made aware of this. Henry I. Hatham, a lad of 15, got two years for attempting to have carnal knowledge of a gill ot 11 ; A. Jas. Fergusson got 12 months for highway lobbery with violence — the affair being more of a drunken brawl than adehbei'ate robbery. Henry Russell, charged with killing a sheep and selling the carcase, pleaded not guilty. He had camped in a snug mimi on W. Grant's farm and was found in possession of a carcase, while Grant missed a carcase.
The average annual rainfall on fche higher slopes of Chiadancanar, on the Solomon Islands, is 'between 400 and 500 inches. ' That- of England is thirty-two inohes,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 293, 25 August 1888, Page 3
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