SUPREME COURT.
(Per Press; Association.) Blenheim, last night.
! Tho Chief Justice openod the local sessions of the Supremo Court to-day, and again congratulated tho distriot on the usual absence of serious crime. A young man, Raynard Wells, who had pleaded guilty in tho Lower Court to forging his brother’s name on a oheque and uttering the cheque at Havelock, was admitted to probation. Arthur G. Hinge, alias Ross, a young man with many previous conviotions, was sentenced to two yoars on a charge of attempted pocket picking on Blenheim railway station. John Radcliffe, a young man, was found guilty of stealing £3 from a odmpanion, and sentence was defrrred till to-morrow. In the Divorce Court a decree nisi was granted in the case Flora Barth ti v, Joseph Bartlett, on the ground of adultery. There was no appearance of respondent.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1476, 9 June 1905, Page 3
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