----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller SHIPPING NEWS: Arrivals - Dec. 7 - Dingadee, s.s., from Gisborne and Auckland. Dec. 7 - Ohau, s.s., from Southern ports. Dec. 7 - Dunedin, schooner, from Oamaru. Departures - Dec. 7 - Dingadee, s.s., for Wellington. Dec. 7 - Ohau, s.s., for Gisborne and Auckland. Dec. 7 - Alert, schooner, for Dunedin. Dec. 7 - Te Kapu, s.s., for Wairoa. Birth - LANGLEY - At Napier, on 5th December, 1891, the wife of J.F. LANGLEY, of a son (stillborn). A peculiar case of cruelty to animals was heard by Mr TURNBULL, R.M., yesterday, when James WILKINSON was charged on the information of Constable KENNEDY with cruelly illtreating fowls by keeping them confined in small boxes. It appeared that defendant packed eleven fowls in a small box on the 17th inst. and despatched them to Te Aute. Mr LASCELLES, who appeared for defendant, considered that the case was an illustration of"much ado about nothing." A fine of £1 and costs was imposed. The station cook Oscar DEVENISH, whose escapade while drunk with a buggy the other day has been already reported, was brought up at the R.M. Court yesterday charged on two informations with being drunk while in charge of two horses and a buggy and with causing injury by allowing the vehicle he was in charge of to run over a child......His Worship fined defendant £5, with costs £1 19s, in default one month's hard labor. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., Matthew GOLDEN and Benjamin GOODMAN, for being too frequently drunk, were each fined £1 and costs, the alternative in both cases being seven days' hard labor. John Burke O'BRIEN, another frequent attender at the Court on charges of drunkenness, was fined 10s and costs, in default four days' hard labor. William REID, for drunkenness, was fined 5s and costs. Joseph FOREMAN, charged with drunkenness, was suffering from delirium tremens, and therefore unfit to plead. He was remanded for a week for medical treatment. Robert CHASE, Alexander CHASE, and Edward CHASE, brothers, were severally charged with disobeying an order of the Court to pay 2s each weekly towards the support of their father, James CHASE. His Worship fined each defendant £1 and costs, in default of payment 14 days' hard labor. Waipawa - The Misses BAKER and BURDETT, who undertook the collection of the requisite fund for school prizes and picnic, have collected upwards of £34, a sum considerably more than was raised last year. John ARMITAGE was today charged, before Dr. MIRBACH, J.P., with drunkenness, and discharged with a caution. We are sorry to learn that Mr GIBBS, guard in charge of the train that met with an accident in the Gorge last week, has been suspended.