SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 14 May 1913, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. [Per Press Association.]. Wellington, May 13. At the Supreme Court to-day, a charge of breaking and entering was brought against Carl Pederson. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but expressed the opinion that prisoner was irresponsible for his actions owing to the amount of liquor he had consumed. His Honor ordered the prisoner to come up for sentence when called upon. Patrick O’Donnell, residing near Eketahuna, was charged with having wounded another farmer, William Eraser, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The case was the outcome of a neighbour’s quarrel, counsel urging that prisoner only fired a gun to frighten Fraser. He pleaded guilty to the minor count and was fined £7 7s. AUCKLAND SESSIONS. Auckland, May 13. At the Supreme Court, Leonard Molley, for the theft of a cheque for £ls, was sentenced to two years’ reformatory treatment; Thomas George Little, for theft from the person, to eighteen months’ imprisonment; and Arthur Ramsay, aged .79, for indecent assault on a child eight years of age, to five years’ reformative treatment.

The great winding-up-business sale, I now proceeding at,A. Spence’s drapery and clothing store is proving to bo a centre of great attraction to j those desirous of saving money in: supplying their wants in these lines. The reason is apparent to every customer. The amazingly great reductions in prices, combined with the high quality of the goods, is the mag-. net which draws. A complete clearance of the shelves, irrespective of the loss involved, is the aim of the proprietor. Rig business has already Ver> done, but there is an immense of stock yet to bo quitted.