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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 9

' ' Several/prisoners -appeared for-, sentence ■ before His -! Honour the. Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) on Saturday morning. - \Mr. P.- S. K. Macass'ey appeared for tlio Crown Law Office. in the case of Isabella. Mignonette Campbell, 24.years of age, who pleaded guilty in the-lower. Court to a charge of bigamy, His Honour, remarked that lie was very sorry to. see prisoner.. in the position. in which! she found herself. During 1917. and 1918' she had been convicted on five charges of drunkenness, two. charges of yagrancy, and for having committed a breach of.her prohibition order. ''You served six months' hard labour in the beginning of last year," added His Honour. "This can't go on. You are liable under this cjiarge to seven years' imprisonment. I will not sentence you to imprisonment but,l shall send you .to Addington tor . reformative treat- ' .inent, to see if they,;can,- make!: laity-'' thing- of-: you. <■: You are. simply' on tlio " road to perdition in the way you! are going on.'' < , Prisoner was .sentenced to . undergo two years' reformative detention at Addington Gaol. Thomas Perry, a steward on the Maori, who had pleaded guilty ,to stealing a diamond ring valued at £120, the property of. a passenger, was stated by his counsel, Mr. P. 'W. Jackson, to have borne an excellent . character previously. For seven years lie had been employed on Union Company steamers, and for four years he had bepn a stoward on the.' Maori., Ho had found the ring in ; a lavatory after tho passengers had -left, t'ho boat, and yielded to ,a sudden temptation to keep it. His Honour said he could not grant probation, _ because prisoner had been in a position of trust. ,In stealing/the ring lie had, caused, suspicion tq" bo cast, upon others on the boat. ' He had had three opportunities to hand over the ring, but had failed. Perry was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. William BuTnell, plias William: Gyles, aged 19, : and Robert Cecil 'Cory, 14J years old, wh<J had both escaped from the Weraroa Training Farm and had committed theft from a dwelling at Otaki, were brought up to be dealt witli. .Burnell also had a second charge of th«ft from a dwelling preferred against him. His Honour warned both of the lads that if thoy oontinue<l. .tlieir career of crime • they ran a risk of being declared habitual criminals. They would each be sentenced to three years' reformative treatment at Invcrcargill. '

The ' Camp Commandant at Featherston acknowledges witli_ thanks the receipt of the undermentioned gifts from Mrs. Donald and Mrs. W. J. Martin on behalf of the Wairarapa Hospital Committee. These .gifts have been dis 7 tributed to the camp hospitals Six turkeys, 3 hams, dried fruits, handkerchiefs, pipes and tobacco, custard, sweets, soft drinks, jellies, flowers,, 18 poultry, lamb, tinned fruits, smokes, Christmas puddings, nuts, socks, scent, cream. . '