NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 588, 17 August 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(liy Telceraph.—l'rcca . doaoclatloa.l — ; SUPREME COURT SITTINCS. IN OTHER CENTRES. (fly Tclecraph.-l'rcps Association.! Chrlstchurch, August'l6. In his charge to the. Grand Jury at tho opening of the Criminal Sessions of tho Supremo Court at Christchurch, Mr. Justico Deimiston stated that it was satisfactory that only one case of' a sexual nature appeared oil the calendar. Tho following prisoners wiSre sentenced—Jameß George Murphy, eighteen months' imprisonment for theft and escaping .from custody; James Wateon, false declaration under Section 53 of the Marriago Act, twclvo months' imprisonment; William Woolley. theft, twelve mofttlis!' imprisonment,, and, at the termination of tho period, to be . treated as an habi-' tual criminal; John Whitford, bigamy, twelve months' imprisonment j George Finlay, forgery, "nine months' imprisonment; Samuel Richard Carr, .theft, three montl--' imprisonment; Gerald O'Hare, forger.yj _.A- months' imprisonment. . Thomas Nesbitt, arraigned on a chargo of theft, was'found not guilty.

: Dunedin, August 16. The criminal eittings of tho Supreme Court opened to-day. Mr. Justice Williams, in charging tho Grand Jury, referred to .tho lightness of tho calendar. The following Bcntences were passed :—Alfred Genet,.alias Jonkons (an old offender), for theft of a basket from a- railway platform, eleven', months' imprisonment; David Rae, assault,. fifteen months; Henry Crofton, breaking and entering and theft, twelve months i William M'Tier was found not guilty of falsifying an. order for the payment of moi'ey to himself, and was discharged. A charge of altering . receipts for money, preferred against John M'Dotigall, was not finished when the Court adjourned. -• •■ •* ■ •■■• ■• .■ ■ - :■ ■ ■ • . ■ Auckland, Aognst'l6. ; ■ The. Supreme . Court . criminal sessions opened this morning.. Mr. Justice Edwards, ' in his charge to the Grand Jury, said there were only twenty-six caees to bo dealt with,' but no fewer than eight were charges agoinet men for alleged offences, against the opposite sex. With respect to the charge of man. slanghter against a tram conductor, his Hononr said that if tho person charged with a duty caused death by negligence of that duty he : was guilty of manslaughter. A RED TRAIL AND A CHASE. BURGLARS FOILED. • • Auckland, August 16. ■Two men broke into the Criterion Hotel, Albert, Street, on Saturday night, evidently intending to force, the safe, but desisted on one or both being severely, injured, when breaking a glass door protected by an iucc-r covering of wirornetting.. One man was seen leaving the premises - ! and was chased- by-a constable, hot escaped, • though he-or his companion jeft a trail of biood for over half a mile leading from the hotel. ■ A NEW LIGHT FOR MARINERB. . ■ Glsborna, August'l6.; . The Hon. J. Carroll on Saturday proceeded, with a number of local • bodies,, to Tiiahino Point, and "formally handed over to ) the Harbour Board the now lighthouse-con- , structed by the Government.. The lighthouse is to exhibit its light to shipping for the first time to-night. It will bo maintained by the - Board. •. Rcferenco. was made to the. great > benefit tho light will be to shipping approaching Poverty Bay from both south: ■•'.■ •••.'-.' -v: ":. ;. ■'' -.. : '.-•■ _'■ "' A GILT-EDCED BAZAAR. Dunedin, August 16. ' A four days' bazaar promoted by the University students,' with the object of building ' :a social hall at the' University, yioldeu £1125.' .'.■■' ; . '-.