Supreme Court Sittings.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 331, 5 June 1894, Page 2

Supreme Court Sittings.

— [PER PBESB ASSOCIATION. j Wellington, June 4. The Grand Jury found true bills io tho whole twenty nine indictments, with the exception of two cases. One of the latter was that against Arthur McKee, proprietor and publisher of tho newspaper •• Fair Play," who was charged with criminal libel on David Gain, and the other was the charge of larceny against Samuel Trudgeon, who recently escaped from gaol in the Wairarapa district and is ftill at large. In both these cases the Grand Jury threw out the indictment?. Henry Devoy, an elderly man, was sentenced to three years for horse stealing. The prisoner admitted he had been three times convicted for horse stealing, four times for forgery and once for larceny, having spent about twenty-eight years of his life in prison. His last sentenpe was for n term of fourteen years. John Oakley was found guilty of forgery, and remanded for senteuce. Dunedis, June 4 At the Supreme Court to-day the following sentences were passed : — William Henry Derrick, housebreaking and theft, at Strath Tieri, two years' had labour; John William Burnet, embezzling £10 from his employer, at Fort Chalmers, two years' imprisonment.