IN THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 58, 4 March 1912, Page 6

IN THE COURTS.

iTor Press Association.! 1 Auckland, March I. In the Supreme Court, William James Courtney, for theft of whisky, wine, and spirits, by ordering from merchants and selling them, making it appear that the goods were for his father, was sentenced to four years’ reformatory treatment. The Judge would not consider a request to modify the sentence on condition that prisoner left New Zealand. It was, lie said, making a serious request to ask him to pass this man on to some other country. Ho might just as well redeem his life in this country. Wanganui, March 4. A young man named Ernest Henry McKay was charged at the Magistrate’s Court this morning with refusing to serve in the Territorials, and also with inciting others to absent themselves from drill. It did not appear from evalence that lie was duly registered. He refused to fall-in when ordered to da so. and declared that he would rather do twenty years’ gaol toan one hour’s drill. The Magistrate said such a state of affairs could not bo tolerated. As it was the first case ?' .V :(> bind, here he did not wish to inflict the maximum penalty. No doubt accused was influenced hy pernicious literature which was being circulated in the Dominion. Accused showed no conception of his duty to the country. Ho was fined £] - for each offence, in default three days’ imprisonment on each charge.