SUPREME COURT, GREY,

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1917, Page 3

SUPREME COURT, GREY,

Asked at the Supreme Court ©a Wednesday why ho kept suck a* large amount of monov as £7oo in shop, Chow

lling, a Chines© storekeeper in Gresson Street, replied (through interpreter Nisbctt) that, “ho could not talk English and did not cars about it,” His Honor Mr. Justice Sim queried that perhaps the witness could not trust the banks. The examining counsel (Mr. M. Hannan) added that lie understood that some of the Chinese store?' kept very largo amounts of cash oil the premises. Mr. William Morris, of Tainui Street, Greymouth, who 'was fined £5 for not answering his name when called as a grand juryman at Wednesday’s sitting of the Supremo Court, yesterday morning assured his Honor Mr. Justice Sim that he did not wilfully neglect his duties by absenting himself from tho Court. His absence was duo to a paragraph in a local paper stating the Court had been adjourned to tho 23rd inst. Mr. Morris produced the paper, adding that ay lie was leaving Greymouth on the 24th. inst, lie had been busy packing up yesterday with a view of attending tho court on Friday. His Honor remarked that- the newspaper might ha've taken the trouble to correct tho statement. There were many 'statements! in newspapers that wero (not correct. His Honor, addressing Mr. Morris, said: “It was really not your fault. The lino will be remitted. In dealing with an application for disharge in bankruptcy at the Supremo Cort at Greymoth on Wednesday Mr. Justio Sim remarked that the applicant had kept no hooks and commented adversely thereon. However the applicant had been adjudged a bankrupt for years ago and as the creditors had not objected the application would be granted. WH... ;