SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1703, 20 March 1906, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(Per Press Association.)

New Plymouth, last night.

The Supreme Court sittings opened this morning. Mr Justice Edwards presided. There were only three criminal charges, but a fairly long civil list. Henry Lowers, for theft of a bicycle, who pleaded guilty in the lower Court, was sentenced to 12 months’limprisonment. On a charge of breaking and entering and theft, H. McGrath got 12 months. Accused formerly held a college professorship, and his downfall was due to drink. Later.—ln the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Edwards, Emma Urry, an elderly married woman, obarged with setting fire to an nroocupied house at Eltham, was found not guilty. The case against Daniel McKee Dowiq for incendiarism at Matapu is prooeediDg, and is 1 hely to oooupy the greater part of to-morrow.

I _ Napier, last night. In his charge to the grand jury at I the opening of the Supreme Court, I Sir Eobt. Stout, Chief Justice, remarked on the heavy calendar of twenty-seven charges against nineteen prisoners, but the cases, with one exception, a charge of abortion, were 'not.of a serious character. Q-. D. Chrisp, for theft, was admitted to probation for twelve months. Fred, Follas, for theft 5 Raukawa Hura, theft and breaking and entering • G. Kemp, forgery and false pretences • and Sidney Anderson, forgery, pleaded guilty, and were remanded till to-morrow for sentence.

Later.—At the Supreme Court to-day I Frederick Sylvester Follas pleaded guilty to larceny at Gisborne, a Maori youth Raukawa Hura to stealing at Wairoa, and a Maori youth, George Kemp, to forging and dealing with a oheque. Rimu Kara, a Maori youth, was found guilty of oarnally knowing a Maori girl under the age of 16 years. William George Phillips was found guilty of obtaining money and a photograph under false pretenoes, Sentence in eaoh oase was deferred.