SUPREME COURT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 137, 12 February 1915, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SITTINGS. IN DIVORCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Feb 12. Olive Elizabeth Taylor from Alfred Taylor on ground of desertion. Decree nisi with costs and custody of child. Maud Mary Stewart from Angus .John Stewart, desertion and neglect. Decree nisi with costs and custody cf child. Arthur Edward Redding from Mabel Blanch Redding, adjourned for production of marriage certificate. Mary Catherine Wilson from John Francis Wilson, desertion. Decree nisi, with costs and custody of two children. Olaf Johnson from Lilian Johnson, desertion and adultery. Adjourned for further evidence as to adultery. Ethel Hannah McNaught from David Corson McNaught, desertion. Decree nisi with costs.

Susan Cameron (nee Carr) from Duncan Kennedy Cameron, adultery.

Decree nisi granted. Joseph Zachariah from Ada ZachariaTr, desertion. Judgment reserved. Wilhelmina Pedersen from Ole Nikolai Pedersen, habitual drunkenness and failure to maintain.. Judgment reserved till the 19th. WELLINGTON, This Day.

At the Supreme Court, before Sir Robert Stout and Justice Edwards, application was made for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Gaudin, who is now undergoing five years’ military ffioltentidu 'at Auckland,, on the grounds that he is illegally detained. Gaudin was tried at Samoa, before a military tribunal, on charges of war treason. In an affidavit he stated ho was not given opportunity of consulting counsel before the trial.

Sir John Findlay, for Gandhi, described tli c sentence passed on Gaud in as savage; one calculated to shock every right-thinking man and woman in New Zealand. The Court said counsel should not make such a reflection on another Court.

Dr. Findlay: What I want to submit is, that the imprisonment of itself did not lead to improvement. The jurisdiction of martial law was no legal authority for Gandhi's arrest, and statutes and regulations did not Confer on the Governor any right to invest the military and police with unlimited powers, which could be so exercised as to constitute tyranny.

The case is proceeding. AUCKLAND SITTINGS. COMMITMENTS FOR PERJURY. AUCKLAND, Feb William Manic, who was committed for perjury in an affiliation case, by denying that he spent a night with a ycuny woman in an Auckland hotel, was ordered eighteen months’ reformative treatment. Jas. Lcckhead, who had given evidence supporting Manle’s story, admitted perjury. Tie was ordered six months’ reformative treatment. PRISONER BREAKS BAIL. i NOT YET DISCOVERED. AUCKLAND, Feb 11. Patrick Gunn, 19 years of age, -was charged with theft and arson at Rawene, failed tq appear, although on bail with two sureties of £250 each, providers by prisoner’s father, John Gunn, and his brother-in-law, William Robert O’Brien, of Auckland, before the case was called on Tuesday. A diligent search has failed to reveal his whereabouts. The judge said he was satisfied the sureties had done everything reasonable to produce the accused, and under the circumstances he would not estreat their recognisances, and inflict such serious loss upon them.