SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 34, 12 February 1901, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

| IT-eb pnsss association.} A t apieh, February U. | At the opening c.f the Supreme jCouit, Mr. Justico Dinnwton lefcrr.'d to the death of the Queen, and the immense improveroeMs that bad taken plac in the administration of criminal justice dining her reign, and expressed! a hrpa that the same programs might be ira.'.d.. during the present century under the King Two prisoners, Herrold charged with causirg actual bodily barm and Concker with fake pretence*, havo been adjudged insine.

Herbert Symrs pleaded guilty toemlezz'ement. Probation wis refused, but us prisoner had already been fire month* in gaol an additional sentence, of one month only was imposed. Chbistcduiich, February]! In the Supreme Court Cecil Cnnn'ngh.mand Alfred Ged«ra vere sensed to one and two ye are respectiTely for breaking and entering. Ernest ■Hancock on a simihvr charge wee adrnittad t« twelve-jnojuhe prooation# Mnhowan (or breaking and «terin* received 18 mo/nths.

Stanley Joseph was admitted to two yeare probation for assault.

A peculiar instance occorod at the Supremo Court to-day; A Maori at Chatham Islands «.M. Court pleaded guilty to a eharge of forgery and utteriiik and was brought to Christchurek for t-entonce. Ut\ing,to some inferm•lity in the papers the Crown Prosecutor g >t peimisrion to place the case bofu« ho Grand Ju.y, simply to correct the informality, when to the surprise of everyoi e they thr*w out the bill.

Dunedin, February 11. At ttte supreme Court to-day a case »h* lu-md in «hich Mrs Whale claimed t'2oo damages fox- injuries sustaieed oa ha Dunedin and Kbikorai Tramway Company'* )i«e. She was a passenger on <bo up car wbicb stsppod on the top [ofastec-p giade and the driver let it «o back 10 pick up the cable rope Mm Wlula K ot flight. Bed at the speed ln «| [jumped off but did not nmembtr what happened through fright. The injury .ior.tiisi* of the end of her thumb bona bjiup enlarged and she kad not r«coTOredthonoimaluco of her thumb though she might do so. The jury r«turred a vei diet for XI3O i.nd the Judge gave costs with stay , f eXecß-t-.on pending a motion for a nonsuit.