SUPREME COURT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1638, 17 August 1887, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

WELLINGTON, August 16 The Supreme Conrt yeoterd*y and today was ocoupicd by the hearing of the 'caee, Oiiy Advanoe Company v J. Smith; claim of £60 3i, amonnt of promissory note. For the defonoo it was eontendad that tho amount bad boon paid to H. R. Waters, formerly manager of the pUintiff'a Company. Tho jury gave a verdict for defendants.

Nblson, August 17. The Supreme Oourt opened thia morn* ing before Judge Richmond. There are only two cases, both of forgery, the nooused being John Rose and David MoLeod. True bills wore found m both oases.

TiMiRU, August 16. In the Supreme Court this morning the Grand Jory returned troo bills against Richard Makepeace Everalelgh, for larceny, and Thomas Terry, for aheepBtealing. Evoraleigh got two years. Ho made a very stubborn defemce, generally denying ovetythlrjtf. Stvann, the gaoler, bwoo tj his 1 lentity with a man formerly In the Wellington gaol uader the name of X roey. Tho prisoner absolutely denljd this The judge characterised the prisoner's taotlca as audacious, and Bentenced him to two years. Tho case against Terry for Bheep-steallng at Carrlogton Station la proceeding. Mr Hay Is for tbo defence.

Timahu, August 19. The sboap-atoollng case againet Teiry ended at 11 5. last night m tha acquittal of the accused. The civil sittings began this morning. The oase Hoare v Beswiok is now proceeding, an action to compel tbe defendant, the Deputy Offioial Assignee, to carry out his agreement to ■ell the plaintiff a certain parcel of land In a bankrupt estate.

IriVBRaARarLL, August 16 J. K. Lea, late Town Clerk of Wlnton, pleaded guilty to four oharges of forgery and to btro of embezzlement, and received three years. An application to have him releaaed under the Probation Act wta refuned, the Judge pointing out that he had been trading on a good name, and that the offences had extended over a series of yosrn The defalcations, so faras known, are £988. J, H. Wilson, now undergoing two years In Danedin gaol for forgery pleaded guilty to two more charges of the name nature, bub urged that the crime was the result of drunkennoai, and really had been committed at the same time a§ others. He wan sentenced to two years, to be concurrent *with his present sentence, 90 that practically he only gets an additional month's Imprisonment.