NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 16 August 1915, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

SUPREME COURT. WHARF THIEVES LECTURED. BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE. WELT TNG TO N, Satu rda y. In admitting two men, named Cashman and Dempster, to probation for two years, for stealing goods from the wharf, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) said: “Working men ought to be saving every penny, v instead of which they were drinking and smoking and going to the pictures and so on. I don’t know what it is coming to in this country. I sec young men leafing about the streets thinking of nothing but their own pleasures, going into hotels, 1 in the middle of a great war, the greatest war the world has soon. Times will come when we will have to undergo very great privations and you are making no provision for them. Even bees and wasps make provision for their offspring, and you make no provision at all. You working men are no worse than other people.

SALUTARY SENTENCES PASSED. Letitia Jane Hood came up for sortonce at the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justitce, Sir Robert Stout, on a charge of having published a defamatory libel on a nun in the Wanganui Convent, knowing it to be false.

His Honour said it was his duty to see that the law was vindicated. Prisoner had tried to foment bad feeling among people who believed with heand people who did not believe with ier. Prisoner had written lies, and hn could not sentence her to less than six months r imprisonment. He would get the Gaol Surgeon to watch ovei prisoner and see what was the cause of thp outburst that had given her so much trouble.

The following were among other sentences passed: J. Kirby, theft from person, nine months; George Penman, indecent, assault on a Tittle girl, two years; Thomas Alfred Batter, indecent exposure, twelve months; Victor Fraser, assault and robbery, three years; Matthew Bell, carnal knowledge of a girl under sixteen at Westport, four years; Teriuera Tupara, for marrying Europeans at Otaki, thereby committing a breach of the Marriage Act, was admonished and discharged.