AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1359, 20 January 1905, Page 1

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.? Auckland, last night. Up to the prosont no word has boon 10coived of the missing yacht Shamrook. Tho o.e. Lady Roberts, which went down to Tiritiriyesterday to roplaoe tho Shoarer Rock buoy, will probably search for hor beforo returning. Tho statistics of oastß hoard at Auckland Supremo Court during tho yoor 1904 show littlo variation from the previous year. A total of 118 poreous woro triod on criminal charges (apatt from thoso who pleaded guilty iu tho lower Courts nnd were sont to tho Supremo Court for sentence), nnd of these 82 were convicted, 30 ucquittod, and ono is Btnndiug over. Tbirty-fivo porsons woro charged with thoft and 23 oonvictod ; 23 were oharg-d with theft and receiving and all convicted; and 31 were olinrged with breaking ai d entering and thoft, of whom 19 woro cat - victed and 12 acquitted. Pour persons woro chargod with burglary, and all were convictod. One person was souteucod to oror 10 years’ imprisonment, nine porsons to terms botweon five and sovon yoais, eight to terms between three and five years, 15 to terms between ono and tv o years, and 12 persons woro rolcusod undt ithe First Offenders Probation Act. In tl o previous year there we.-o 121 persons charged, 78 oonvioted, and 43 acquitted For selling liquor without a license thui o was only one oane in 1904, and tbo uccusi d person was acquitted, while in 1903 thrro were 17 such oases tind 6 conviction?. During tho year the.- e have been 30 petitions for dissolution of marriage, 24 decrees grautod. nrd one -petition dismissed, the remainder of petitions not being die posed of at the olose of she your. Iu the previous yoar 32 decrees for dissolution of marriago were granted.