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AGRICULTURE. $I <( WINTRY WEATHER. |S ^as^cncd winter'' to whicli many people have been alluding, and somewhat hop- ing for in many instances, came upon us last week, and while it brought discomforts to not a few, may bo regarded with considerable im- punity by most agriculturists. The seasonable snow and frost as is well kmown purify the soil and render it more fruitfu! eventually, if they are not exactly agreeable to live stock. Plough- ing is generally well forward for the spring sowings, and where this is the case arable soils will derive muoh benefit. For the early lamb- mg, however, which has commenced in the southern counties, the prospect is less agree- able, but so long as it is confined to a°dry frosty atmosphere and free from excessive humidi'y not muoh harm is taken. From all accounts up to the present we hear that the lambs are arriving thick and fast, and both ewes and their offspring are healthy and in good condition. At Oswestry Borough Sessions the other day Mr. David M. Jones, a member of the Llanfyllin Town Council, was fined 25 and J65 cost* for making a false declaration under the Swine Feve,r Orders. At the same sessions Mr. W. H. ihomas, a magistrate on the the bench, left his seat and assumed tihe character of defend- ant on two charges of neglecting to report sheep scab. His defence was ignorance of its existence, and that he "left it to his man." Fines and costs to the aggregate of 50s. were inflicted, after which Mr. Thomas returned to his scat and shared in the adjudication of remaining cases. It may be as well in this column to remind our agricultural readers of the now Dogs Act which came into force with the advent of the New Year. Certificates of exemption from duty on excise licences for dogs used solely for the purpose of tending sheep or cattle, can now only be secured by application to Petty Ses- sions- Personal application is not necessary, but exemption forms may be had from and must be returned to the Clerk of the Petty Sessional Division. Particulars are published in connection with the farm prize competition at the next Royal Show at Lincoln. The prize fund amounts to £ 300. There will be four classes, and in classes 3 and 4 the prizes having been given by the local Hunts, the use made of wire and the care that had been taken to remove it in the hunting season will be taken into consideration by the judges. The entries closed on the last day of the old year. AUSTRALIAN WOOL. Mr. J P. Bray, the American Consul- General. reports to the Washington Bureau of Manufactures that the Australian wool ship- ments from July 1 to September 30 were 143,421 bales, a decrease of 115,534 bales as compared with the corresponding period in 1905- The shearing is about thirty days late this year, owing to oontinuous rains throughout Aus- tralia during the past, two months, amd it is feared that the wool will not be of such good quality as in the previous season. It is esti- mated that the total clip for the season will amount to about 150,000 bales. AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. Mr R. H. Rcw, successor to Major Cragie in the office of Secretary to the Board of Agri- culture and Fisheries, has published his first returns of the acreage. live stock, etc., of Great Britain, with summaries for the United Kingdom. The returns, which form Part I of the XLI. volume, are an extension of the pre- liminary report recently published, and the new secretary in his prefatory remarks says he proposes to make a slight alteration in the mode of publication. The returns, which have grown from 53 pages in 1867 to 368 pages in 1S05, in view of the increasing demand for statistical information, and are not expected to have reach d their limit, will henceforth be published annually in four parts, which may be bound up in one volume or used separately as occasion requires. A prominent feature of the new pub- lication is noticeable in the useful charts or diagrams under many separate heads, shewing at a glance the comparative figures an] aver- ages extending over different years and the decimal pefriod. EARLY MATURITY. The "Field" says:—"We are apt to congratu- late ourselves upon the progress which the early maturity movement has made in this country. but if the records of the Chicago Show afford a reliable criterion we are completely out- distanced by the United States. Not only was the championship awarded to a bullock only eleven months old, but it seems every one of the breed champions was less than two years old. This fact compares curiously with the Smithfield results, which do not include a cor- responding victory for any animal under two years. America is not noted for moderation in its schemes or achievements, and her tradi- tions are fully sustained in respect to the prominence assigned to early maturity in her cattle Baby beef if, evidently the order of the day on the other side of the Atlantic, even when the awards are made by a British judge. It is curious to reflect how readily judges adapt themselves to circumstances. In America British -judges do not hesitate to give prefer- ence to deserving young stock; but no judge or combination of judges has yet had the courage to act similarly at home."
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GARDEN SEEDS.—The annual seed catar logue issued by Messrs. Dicksons, Chester, has buen received. For convenience and utility, due to a careful classification, the volume is second to none in the country. The illustra- tions. which are numerous, convey a splendid idea of the produce in flowers and vegetables obtained from Messrs. Dicksons's seeds, and the attention to the inclusion of only those varieties which have been found by practical experience to be worthy of cultivation, en- hances the value of the catalogue bo gardeners of all grades. Copies of the illustrated list are to be obtained on application. A PROFITABLE OAT CROP.—Mr. Ernest Parke's manurial experiments on the growth of oats at Kineton, in Warwickshire, have been carried out for another year with the co-opera- tion cf Dr. Dyer. The oats followed beans, and were a good crop, the favourable effects of the ecason being such as even the portion of the field left unmanured yielded 42 bushels of oats and nearly a ton of straw pe: acre. A dressing of nearly 3cwt. of superphosphate per acre raised the yield to 55 bushels cf oats, with 24cwt. of straw. When the superphos- phate was followed by a top dressing of lewt. of nitrate of soda, applied after the plant was up. the crop was 67 bushels of oats and 1 totIl of straw; while a second hundredweight of nitrate, put on a few weeks later, raised the yield to 74 bushels of oats., with over two tons of straw, per acre. On these two plots the manuring cost, roughly, 20s. and 32s. per acre respectively, while the returns obtained in in- crease of crop were over three-quarters cJ oats, with three-quarter ton of straw, per acre in the one case, and four quarters of oats, with over one ton of straw, per acre in the other. The mangold manuring experiments this year were spoiled by the irregularity of the orop, owing to failure of the young plant through drought. WELL KNOWN NORTH WALES FARMER.—The death is announced of Mr. William Jones, of Plasmadoe, Ruabon, one of the best-known agriculturists in North Wales and Shropshire. Mr. Jones, who was about seventy years of age, was one of the pioneers of the North Wales Llangollen Sheep Dog Society, of which he bad been vioe-prcsident, and had been closely connected with the Den- bighshire and Flintshire Agricultural Society and the Llangollen Agricultural Society. He frequently acted as judge at sheep dog trials, was a prominent member of the Ruabon Parish Council, a Churchman, and Conservative, and held one of the most important homestead farms on the Wynn&tay estate. One of his ancestors, Mrs. Randies, of the Faoh Farm, near St. Mar- tin's, Ruabon, held the unique distinction of having "thrashed"- the Duke of Wellington. When a boy at Eton the future duke passed his hclidays at Brynkwalt, Chirk, then occupied by Viscountess Dungannon, hie grandmother. One day he was playing marbles with a brother of Mrs. Randies, and a dispute arose, in the oo-urso of which Mrs. Randies intervened and attacked her brother's antagonist and soundly thrashed him.
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THE DISCOVERIES AT MORETON.—The thanks of the Birkenhead Library Committee have been conveyed to Mr. C. Gatehouse, of Birkenhead, for his presentation of a collection of animal remains found in the submerged forest at Moreton.
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WITH ROD AND LINE. DAY WITH A SALMON ANGLER. (By a Correspondent.) I cordially invite you to sit down with me on some soft turfy bank, by your favourite stream, while I try to interest you in a view of the ups and downs and strange moods which doggedly pursue the footsteps of the enthusiastic salmon fisherman. To him a fish is purely an object of sport, a thing to be charmed and caught by the artful device of a salmon fly, then skil- fully played with line from the reel, and tension from the rod, until in a terrific fight for life and liberly it gets played out, and can be brought hors de combat to the shore. Excellent sport, no doubt it is, and in view of the prero- gative given to man over the fish of the flood, and his natural instinct to hunt and slay, no- where spoken against in Scripture, we may assume it to be clearly within his Christian privileges to hunt and kill it, in this way. Most people love sport of some kind, but the enthusiastic salmon fisher gets married to it, and he soon finds himself under the strange in- fluencing power of a wayward mistress, over whom he will have little control. She may not lead him to jewellers' shops or drapers' win- dows, but he will not be able to pass a shapely fish on a marble slab before he has exhausted all his piscatory experience in trying to identify it with its native stream, solved the question as to the particular fiy it would have risen to, and how long it would have taken him to land it with his new American cane and steel rod. He is grieved at its mean death and holds out that it is a licensed sin to kill fish with nets. For weeks before he is expected to be sum- moned to some selected piscatorial stream, it may be to some favourite corners in the upper reaches of the crooked Dee, his mind will be completely absorbed in the fateful query as to the exact number of gold and silver tinted stripes, and suitable proportions of that curious compound of pig's wool, fur, and feathers re- quisite in the millinery and true fashioning of the salmon flies, especially created and claimed for the fish of that particular, district. Mind you, if we are to believe implicL L, the theories of the craft, there can be no doubt as to a dis- tinct creation, of salmon flies for every salmon river, and that the rnonarchs of the stream would sooner choose death through inanition before they would rise to greet an artificial fly which was not modelled and fashioned in the minutest detail, in grace and likcncsQ, to court flies born and bred on their native stream. In my angling rambles on British waters I have often tried to find from among the larger species of the ephemera families some natural likeness to these favourite lures for different streams, and I have also searched with some diligence in the store cases of many eminent entomological students for originals, but I can- not say with any success. However, the fly milliner, who is generally a bit of an entomolo- gist, and, above all. gifted with a persuasive- ness hardly to be gainsaid, persists in the doc- trine of some mysterious philosopher, who came and departed like a shadow and bequeathed to the sons of ancient artificers secret comm issions from antediluvian days, when these original salmon flies were plentiful, and when there was no doubt as to their oomplete naturaJ assort- ment to all the salmon rivers in the British Isles. These flies, he will tell you, were dis- tinct from all the other families of the ephemera tribe, in their wonderful feate in impefffected insect life, and ultimate superior beauty. In- cubated from the ovary, deposited on an alder leaf, to the larvse stage, it suddenly-acquires aquatic nature, and drops into the bubbling stream below, where it constructs a crustlike and cement cell in which it flits about in am- phibious elements. In this regime the female larvae will have grown into a complete insect or salmon fly, with her local characteristic marking perfectly developed, and she will be betrothed to a male of her own specie. Her lithe and graceful body will now be wrapped in soft velvety fur skin artistically designed by nature in matchless bright and gorgeous colours of the richest and deepest hue, and on the wed- ding day the two will spread their transparent gold and silver tinted wings in glorious sun- shine and fly away. The female, after a short espousal, will leave her spouse and hasten to a green alder leaf overhanging her native stream, whore she will deposit her brood of eggs, secure- ly glued in a mess, and leave them there to be hatched out by the heat of the sun, the provi- dential godmother of many raoss. The female's generative commission in life now being ended, she will alight on the rippling wavea, and while being carried away by the stream to her end in some royal harbour, she will sail and dance on its surface in her glorious array, until a silvery monarch, charmed with her beauty, will rise from the deep, and claim her for a royal lunch. "Yes, sir," the fly milliner will pause- and say, "these original salmon flies, which we in the craft do our best to model and fashion for you, were plentiful in byegone days, but they were as pure as the flakes of falling snow, and could not exist in polluted air and poisoned rivers, and in time have succumbed to the sins of cfvllisation, but, as it were, by a strange fr*ak of Providence, the memory of their character- istic form and beauty has been handed down for generations, unimpaired, to the parity of all the salmon race." Some years ago, it is said, that a keeper named John Scott, with a piscatorial turn of mind, found one of these original salmon flics on the Alywn, a tributary of the Tweed, near to Melrose, and from this he modelled the now world-famed "Jock Scott fly." Surely this relic might have been preserved as the last of the species. It would be out of all reason to doubt of a special creation of salmon flies for the Dee. However, though originating in similar for- mula, they lack the meretricious finery which charm the fish of other rivers; they are a modest unassuming creation, like beauty un- adorned pleaves be t. At last, we may assume, that the enthusiastic fisherman has solved the problem of the dressing and fashioning of the m°re MODEST DEE EPHEMERA, and that in duo time we will find him early astir, and first at the breakfast table in one of t.he hospitable Welsh hotels in the upper reaches of the river. He will be arrayed in a setni- diving suit, and in a happy and generous mode of temperament, bustling here and there to glean information as to the fishable condition of the water, the number of fish which have been seen in the salmon casts, and if any others or poachers have been found disturbing the peace of the river lately. All these questions having been faithfully answered in the true orthodox fashion of trying to pieaga all well-paying gueete., he will stride away with a buoyant spirit to tasre in reality the exciting day dreams of sport which for weeks lie has been storing up in imagination. His ideal venue may be some distance away, but he will find the pure, sharp morning air invigorating. The sun, too, will just have commenced to peer through the creeks and hollows of the rich heather and timber-clad mountains into the wide and fertile valley below, through which the Dee gracefully winds her way from her source in Bala Lake. This picturesque scenery would not fail to attract the angler's eye. and in a pleasing sense of admiration the weary way would seem to have been shortened. His goddess stream will greet him with a smiling splash, with which, in accordance with the ancient order of angling monks never to be forgotten, he will blend with a drop of mountain dew. Then, sitting himself down on the soft mossy bank, surrounded by meadow-sweet and flag iris, he will toast to her everlasting reign in sublime beauty and glorious sport. All tho preliminaries having been faithfully observed and his tackle faultlessly adjusted, he will stride out into the stream and at once commence to cast play and dangle his deadly lure in the water, in lifelike imitation of the harmless, merry May-fly, gaily dancing, dipping, and merrily sailing over the rippling waves. The angler now has become so entirely absorbed in the dexterous handling of his rod, to avoid an offensive splash with his line or any unnatural ruffling of the water's surface with his lure which would be likely to raise the suspicion of his intended prey, that the time will wear on unnoticed by him, and the sun may have passed over his head and sipped up the silvery dew from the meadows unobserved. But his shoulders have commenced to ache, and I another sense of his failing endurance, no doubt quickened by the fresh mountain air. reminds him that he has had nothing to eat since early morning, so he aitB down to lunch and rest reluctantly with an empty creel. His buoyant spirit of the morning has suddenly sunk to ite normal load line. He is now in a meditative mood of temperament, and ie anxiously discuss- i ing with himself the hazardous chances of sport -< now awaiting him. The prospects indeed are gloomy. True, it has not been a model fishing I day; tho eun has been t- j bright so far for fish to rise freely or deport themselves. The fly he has been using, too, may just have been on the big side for such a fine day, and in that respect it will be all the more suitable for the evening. The water is in good order, and when the sun goes down some stray monarch may yet emerge from under a kindly shadowing rock cliff to reward him for his diligence. In this chain of thought and reasoning the angler will have eaten his lunch, and with some renewed vigour he will plunge into the stream again and continue to pitch hie instinct against that of his intended prey, his ingenuity against their cunning, ana his patience against their shynesa But his time and energy alike will seem to have been in vain, for the sun has long sinoe gone down below the spire-topped moun- tains, and yet Dame Fortune refuses to smile on him. The air is now getting cold and his back will be sorely bent, his coat tails will be afloat in the water and his teeth chattering in hie head, the wind will be in his eyes and the water in his boots, but hope, the charm, lingers in his heart. The twilight, though, is giving out, and he will lose patience with himself and want to know the strange form of insanity which possessed him and many others, at times, to leave their comforts at home and pressing business to go and starve there. In such a mood one might suppose that the angler would be plying his rod indifferently, and only waiting, as it were, for darkness to come to his rescue, but oh! a small splash, and then a heavy tug at the end of the line, will have sent an electric- like spark to his body. His rod is now creaking and his reel birring, his cap jumped up on to a few of the tallest hairs on his head, anethe blood will have rushed through his veins like a whirlwind to his benumbed limbs. He has hooked a fish at last, and, like with the touch of a magic wand, his whole aspect has been changed; his dark and downcast looks of only a second ago have vanished and given place to a look of intense interest and happy excitement. There is now a knowing brightness in his eye and a flood of joy in his count'nance, which can only betoken that he has heartily and wholly for- given the semi-cold and cruel-like treatment of his wayward mistress, and that he is now enjoy- ing one of those reconciling honeymoons which so often follow in the wake of a domestic quarrel The fish is a big one, and it is fighting desperately for life and liberly, but the duellist indulges it. with carefully teneioned spare line for its bounding hither and thither from one side of the river to the other, and long, racing headlong flights from pool to stream, until in the end it gete completely played out, and then helplessly turning on its back, he quietly draws it to the shore. Now, his craving for sport for the day being satisfied, he will wipe the perspira- tion from his brow. bag his prey, and in a happy mood will retrace his steps to his botel, where we may find him an hour later, not the bustling, enthusiastic fisherman of the morning or the downcast hero of the twilight, but a most complacent and amiably-disposed friend who is calmly tasting the joys of visions realised
NEW FLINTSHIRE JUSTICES. *
NEW FLINTSHIRE JUSTICES. LORD CHANCELLOR'S ACTION. The names of twenty gentlemen have been added to the Commission of the Peace for Flintshire. It is understood that the following names were approved by the Lord-Lieutenant as being a sufficient number to meet current requirements: Mr. James W. Summers, of Roesett, chairman of the Flintshire County Council. Dr. David Edwards, Mold. Mr. Joseph Astbury, Galchog, Northop. Mr. Thomas Jones, of Prestatyn. Mr. Walter Reney, of Connah's Quay. Mr. J. Philip Jones, member of the Flintshire County Council, of Holywell. Mr. Richard Elwyn Birch, St. Asaph. Mr. Walter Baldwyn Yates, Cilcen. Mr. Llewelyn Watkin Howel Tringham, of Ner- quis Mr. William Newton, of Buckley. Dr. Henry Lloyd, St. Asaph. The Lord Chancellor has, notwithstanding, added other names, and, in addition to the magist.rates above-mentioned, the following gentlemen have been placed on the commission: Mr. George Colin HockenhuU, Whitchurch. Mr. David Evan Hughes, Caerwye. Mr. Jacob Jones, of Rhyl. Mr. Samuel Jones, member of the Flintshire County Council, Holywell. Mr. John Henry Noble, of Buckley. Mr. James Prince, member of the Flintshire County Council, of Connah's Quay. Mr. John V illiams, St. Asaph. Dr. J. H Williams, chairman of the Flintshire Police Committee, of Flint. Mr. Thomas Williams, of Prestatyn. Mr. J. W. Summers was elected in March, 1904. to the Flintshire County Council for Queen's Ferry, and was made chairman of that body upon his election, although he had not previously served on the County Council. He is a member of the firm of Messrs. Summers and Sons, Ironworkers, Stalybridgo and Shotton. In politics he in. a Radical. Dr. David Edwards is well-known in Mold and district. He is a prominent Calvinistio Metho- dist and a Radical. Mr. Joseph Astbury is a farmer and a Radical. Mr. Thomas Jones is a member of the Pres- tatyn Urban Council, and a Radical. Mr. Walter Reney belongs to a well-known Oonnah s Quay family, who have taken a large port in local public life. In politics he is a Radical. Mr. J. Philip Jones, county councillor, is a member of the Holywell Urban Council and Board of Guardians. He is also a Radical. Mr. R. E Birch is the son of Major Birch, of St. Asaph. He is, like his father, well-esteemed in that part of the county. Among his accom- plishments is no little skill with the cricket bat. He is a Unionist. Mr. W. B. Yates is a barrister on the Chester cirouit, and is a Liberal Churchman. Mr. Tringham is a Unionist, and so is Mr. W. Newton, chairman of the Buckley Urban Council. Mr. Samuel Jones and Mr. James Prince have made themselves notouous by their attacks on the Flintshire Constabulary and the Standing Joint Committee. Mr. Prince is a member of the Connah's Quay Urban Council. Dr. J. If. Williams, of Flint, is an ardent Radical, and his elevation to the bench was quite expected. He is e, member of the Flint- shire County Council and Education Committee. We are not sure as to the politics of Mr. Noble, of Buckley, but Dr. Henry Lloyd, Mr. George C. Hcckenhull, Mr. D. E. Hughes, Mr. Jacob Jones, Mr. John Williams, and Mr. Thomas Williams are all Radicals. THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE. It will be observed that of the twenty new magistrates sixteen are Rndicals, while only three are Unionists, the politics of the remain- ing one being unknown to us. It is significant that the magistrates added to the Lord-Lieu- tenant's list by the Lord Chancellor are all Radicals. The action of the Lord Chancellor in over-riding the Loird-Lieutenant's recommen- dations seems to call fcr explanation. u.
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LONGEVITY AND EARLY RISING.-A centenarian passed away at Portsmouth on Friday in the person of Mrs. Cochrane. The old lady hiid reached the advanced age of 101 years. Her eyesight and memory were remarkably good, and she could carry her memory back for 92 years. She attributed her old age to early rising, bard work, and temperate habits. -A. M?".I'
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SUSPECTED THIEF, ^——- REMARKABLE CHESTER CASE. On Saturday at the City Police Court, before the Mayor (Mr. F Brown). John Williams, a middle- aged well dressed collier, of no lixed abode, was charged with being on the premilles of the ( ity Dining Rooms for an unlawful purpese. -Pi isoner admitted the offence. The Chief Constable asked for a remand until Friday next. He explained that about 1.30 p.m. on Friday prisoner was found upstairs at the City Dining Rooms, Foregate-street- He had opened a box belonging to one of the nurses employed by Mr. Dutton, and when he was arrested money taken from a purse in the box, a brocch and a tie were found in his possession. Prisoner gave no account of himself, and he wanted to make enquiries. P.C. Salter said he was called to }Ir. Dutton's shop on Friday, and received the prisoner in custody. When charged with the offence prisoner admitted it. Prisoner, who bad nothing to say, was remanded, in custody, until Friday next.
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PROPOSED HOLYWELL RAILWAY. t ACCESS TO THE SEA, At last Friday's meeting of the Holywell Rural District Council the clerk further re- ported as to the London and North- Western Railway Company's 1907 Bill in reference to the powers sought by the company for the con- struction of a railway irom Greenfield to Holy- well. He explained that last year the company obtained the necessary powers to make the Holywell "curve," and in the present Bill they sought powers to make a railway from this curve up to the town of Holyw«ll.—Mr. J. Petrie (Greenfield) wanted to know if there was any provision in the Bill to continue the rail- way from the Holywell curve to the Greenfield wnarf. If the portion from the old railway to the wharf was closed it would be a serious draw- back to the neighbourhood, as they would be deprived of free access to the seaboard.—The Clerk said that if the proposed railway should be continued beyond Holywell it fyould pass through the Halkyn mineral district, and any traffic thence might be taken and dut&ped down at the Greenfield siding. What Was wanted was a siding on to the wharf, in order that the minerals might be discharged into ve^els.—Mr. Petrie thought the Council should insist, upon having the railway open to the sea. if no pro- vision of this kind was put into the Bill it would mean that the whole of the traffic of the Mountain-if it were developed—would have to go by rail and not by water; but war freight would put them in a better position to cope with competition. The matter was Uft in the hands of the clerk to institute inquiries
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NORTIIOP PETTY SESSIONS. ♦ THURSDAY.—Before Messrs. Herbert Wat- kinson (in the chair) and T. J. Rmey. Thursday, February 14th, was formmy fixed as the date of the general annual licensing meet- ing for the division of Northop.—Mr, Charles Davison was nominated as a member 0f the County Licensing Committee for the division of Northop under the Lioc-nsing Act, 1904, Rule 1. MODESTY OF A DEFENDANT,—Fred Hulme, of Quay-road, Northop, a rcsjjoctably- oonneotcd youth, possessed of a bad rclcb-rd, was charged under warrant for disobedience of a aumimoinis charging him with trespafcing in search of game.—Joseph Davies Hughes said he was the son of Hugh Hughes, tenant of the Starkey Farm, Nortlicp. At 11 a.m. on Sun- day, the 25th ult.. he was walking to Northop village, when he heard some shouting in illie top field of his father's farm. The shouting was as if some cno was after a,rabbit. He proceeded to the spot, and found the defendant searching the fences with a dog. It was a big retriever.— The defendant: No. it was a sheep dog.—Wit- ness, oontining, said when he told the defendant he would be summoned he made no reply. There were rabbits in the fenoe he was working, but defendant had none on him. There was a boy with the defendant. He had no right whatever on their land. Subsequently the defendant put up a hare, which tho dog chased on to adjoin- ing I-and.-In reply to the Chairman, the de- fendant strenuously denied the charge. He ex- plained that on the day in question he was returning home from work As he was in his working clothes and very untidy he did not oa.re to go through the village, as the people were going to church, so he went over the fields. He did not answer to the summons because he had a bad cold.-The witness Hughes stated that in any oase defendant had no occasion to be near the field in which he was found.—A list of eleven previous convictions for a. variety of offences was put in, and the defendant was fined 2s. 6d. and 13s. coats.
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