The advent of the infants created (a correspondent writes) no end of excitement throughout the district, and they have been visited and welcomed and had all sorts of good luck wished them by all and sundry since their arrival.
Mr and Mrs Thurlow may well be excused a pardonable pride in their triple offspring, as Dr Bagley, quoting statistics, shows that the case is one in 8000 births, and that it is rare indeed to find that, as in this instance, the three children survive.
It is pleasing to know that the happy mother and her three babes are progressing splendidly. [N. B. sonsie in old Scots or Irish means comely, buxom or plump.]
• Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S. M., presided over the Juvenile Court yesterday morning, when a small boy was charged with stealing a watch valued at 10s 6d.
The case was before the court some days before, when the lad was remanded for reports as to character.
The Rev E. A. Axelsen said that the lad had got beyond control, and had been sleeping out at nights.
Since the Rev. V. B. King had taken the boy in hand improvement had been effected.
The Rev Mr King said he had arranged for the boy, who had been attending a ladies' school, to go to a public school, where he should be under the eye of a schoolmaster.
The father of the boy said that he had tried thrashing and coaxing without success.
The boy was 11 years of age, and in Standard II at a ladies' school.
His Worship said it was a mistake to send boys to a ladies' school.
They should go to a boys' school.
It seemed to him, from the nature of the theft, that the boy had got into very evil ways.
In the past he had simply admonished and discharged such boys, but he would have to be a little stricter, as there appeared to be a wave of trouble as regards boys getting out of control.
In the case before the court he would order the lad to be whipped - four strokes with the birch.
His Worship said that he hoped this form of punishment was being performed properly and not perfunctorily.
Sub-inspector Phair assured his Worship that the punishment was administered in a proper manner.
- ODT, 15.10.1909.
