SUPREME COURT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 70, 21 November 1914, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SITTINGS. By Telegraph—-Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 20. At the Supreme "Court, Laurence Gerald Healy, lately a member of the Expeditionary Force was sentenced io three months' imprisonment, for forging and uttering orders for gzoods. Robert Henry Gibson, convicted of fortune telling, was sent.' to gaol for five months. He had already been two months in prison. Sutherland Murray Donald Cram,. for robbery- from the po.'son, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Louis James Hosking, aged 26, was > convicted on three changes of carnal knowledge of a little girl eight years old, in a bearding house where he stayed. Justice Hosking stigmatised the crime as the worst kind, punishable with three floggings. He would not impose a flogging in this case, hut the prisoner would be sentenced io three years on each charge, the terms to run concurrently. THE ELECTIONS. TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER .10 « WELLINGTON, This Bay. j It is officially announced that the general elections will be held on Thursday, December I.oth. In four Maori i constituencies the elections will be held the following day.