AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 201, 20 May 1919, Page 5

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

Br Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 1!)., At tin' Suoreme Court criminal sessions t'nis morning. Mr. Justice Stringer said that twenty-three charges had. to 1* considered, including seven relating to oexual offences, eleven involving dislioncstv. and three, of assnnlt. None of the cases presented any difficulties. James Moylan denied a charge of havin" stolon n. cashbox and contents from a house in Grey Street. Accused was convicted of receiving pnly, ami sentenced to six months; imprisonment , . Wera Simons, a young Maori, pleaded nut' guilty to making a false declaration to the Registrar of Marriages at- Anclcland for the purpose of procuring a mairiaße certificate, it was stated that the girl whom the accused married was a white girl, and accused knew quitej »ell she was only twenty years old when ho declared she was twcnty ; one. The juiy returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, stating they (lit not consider the- accused realised to seriousness of what lio was doing, accused was fined JllO. . Olaf Robert Thorkalson, for breaking, a plnte-glnw window of a draper s shop in Queen Street, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

The Bishop of Chichester (states in his "Diocesan Onzette" that with the approwl of the Archbishop of Canterbury, he has sent the resignation of his Bishopric to the proper autlioriy.