SUPREME COURTS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2908, 21 July 1882, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

[By Telegraph.] Auckland, July 20. In the Supremo Court to-day, the case Bank or New Zealand v. Hugh Lusk and W. Butler, claim £587, for money due and interest, was taken. The defendants are executors in the estate of W, Butler, of Mongonui, who owed the Bank the amount claimed at the time of his death. The jury found that the executors had not fully administered the estate, but that they bad assets in their hands amounting to £570. Judgment for the plaintiffs will not be entered up till the question of interest to be charged has been decided. Dunedin, July 20. Jimmy Ab Yow was found guilty of assault on and robbery of another Chinaman named Ah Chenny, on the goldfields, and sentence was deferred. Cuthbert McKellar, charged with embezzlement from the National Bank at Mosgiel, was found guilty According to the statement of the prisoner’s counsel, the prisoner in the discharge of his duties had to go about to hotels, Ac. collecting money, and the money-be was charged with embezzling was so collected.. The jury added a recommendation to mercy, in consequence of the mode of conducting the business, and a sentence of six. months was pased. Eliza Whittel was found fuilty of robbery from a dwelling. She ad marched in at the front door in broad daylight, whilst the people of the household were in the back room. Several such robberies had been committed. Sentence was deferred.

July 21.

At, the Supreme Court to-day, Eliza Whittel, on a charge of larceny, was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Samuel Henry Lees pleaded guilty to uttering and forging his father’s name to a cheque. He was sentenced to one month’s imprisomeot without bard labor. Charles Wilkins and Andrew Neilaon were each sentenced to a month’s imprisonment without bard labor for fixing Hennessy’s labels to brandy bottled by them. The brandy seized was ordered to be forfeited.