SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9004, 18 November 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Press Association. Wellington, Nov. 18. The criminal sessions of the Su- ; preme Court opened to-dtiy. Ihe calendar consists of twenty-two cases against twenty-four persons The Judge in charging the Grand Jury said that a good many of the charges wore from districts remote from ; Wellington, and so far as tho city and suburbs of Wellington were con- ; cerued he saw nothing abnormal in ; tho number of charges, thc ffiS h J 1 $ i were more numerous than ho uould have liked to see. The list ranged from a charge of attempted murder to profane language. 1 Auckland, November 18. Alexander McOallura pleaded rrniltv to charges of breaking into a dwelling house, and theft ot whisky and cigarettes, tie w r as sentenced to

six months’ imprisonment;. Christchurch. November la. ) The criminal sittings of the ; Supremo Court opeuecl to-day. j Seven criminal charges were prot'errocl against ten persons, three coming up for sentence. Mr Justice Chapman, in charging the Gruad Jury, said he was pleased that its duties would bo light, as only eight ■wore indictable cases, and only one which would give the jury much trouble. Ho was pleased to notice the practical absence of serious sexual crime, not that there had been I any reason to 'complain in the past in Canterbury, but in some portions of the Dominion it had become quite a noticeable feature in the periodic criminal calendars. The pronipitudo with which this class of cruise hUfl been dealt with in recent years seemed . now to be telling, and ho

thought it might bo becoming apparent that it was less now than in the past. One case on the calendar, ■ however, approximated to that class , of crime—the case of a young man , charged with unlawfully entering ! a' house with the object of com- , • mitting crime in which there. was some suggestion that the gm to his intention, or partly loinmci intention, of some act of unmorality His Honour'.dealt shortly With the other cases for heiu'lng.