Supreme Court.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 300, 3 December 1884, Page 2

Supreme Court.

EXXTRAOBDINAUY SCENT’.. THE MONCKTON’S AGAIN. GRAY V. GRAY. [Own CORRESPONDENT.] Napier, December 8. In the Supreme Court yesterday, Thomas Slator, for forging a cheque on the Bank of New South Wales, got eighteen months• Henry Douglas, stealing (£44 at Kakapau, eighteen months ; HamieraKaraitiana, horse stealing, two years. Wm. Wilson, of the Armed Constabularyj was charged with committing perjury at the hearing of the assault case in the R.M. Court, brought by Lofley against other constables. After the jury had been deliberating nearly five hours, the foreman (Mr. C. W. Mackenzie) came into court and asked to be let off, as he was very ill. His Honor said he could not, and immediately Mr. MacKenzie fell back on the ground in a fit. His Honor then ordered the remainder of the jury to be called in, and told them that as their foreman wap too ill to attend to his duties they were discharged, and the case wilj be triedjfc novo on Thursday. Wilson was released on his own recognisance till then. Wellington, December 3.

In the Divorce Court yesterday, Gray v. Gray wan a petition by the wife for dissolution of marriage on the ground that the husband had been unable to consumate marriage. The case wae adjourned to enable the evidence of the husband to be taken by a Commissioner in Melbourne, Monckton v. Monckton was a petition by the wife for divorce on the ground of adultery and cruelty. Petitioner deposed she was 13 years and two months old when married, and had been induced to marry respondent by his threats and the persuasions of her sister, Mrs. Lynch, with whom respondent cohabited. Petitioner did not occupy the same room with respondent after marriage, but her sister did. The case was adjourned for argument as to cruelty. In Morris v. Morris a rule nisi was granted.