SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 August 1901, Page 2

SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, Ohristchuhch, August 8. In the Supreme Cvurt, Chas. Rws was senrenc d tc two years for and uttering. The Judge remarked ob tbe frtqu ncy of this crimp, whiih wrb due to the ficili'y with which loose blank cheques can be obtained, and said that p rsans who flf-ked for them should be refer; e 1 to their banker if they represent d they had an acc:un f . At the Supreme Court to-day, Charles Frederick Winstanley, a telegraph operat.t r, and John Mouat'.com mercial traveller, were convic'ed on charges of conspiracy to defraud Patterron Brcs., bookmakers, of Welliog'oo, and of cheating in batting on hoi 88 racing, A senter.ee of six months' imprisonment was pa.es >d, Dunedin, A'igust 7. The preliminary phas > of an u i jgual case came before thn Supreme Court in banco. The Asse's Campauy form»d in Edinburgh to take over the assets of the Glasgow Bank, commenced with a capital of half a million. The agent in New Zealind bad therefore to p»y a fee of .£2OO per annum to carry on the business The cipital was subsequently reduced, aud the fe» payable would only amount to XSO; but the New Zealand agent was nos informed of tbe ohange, and for tea yea-e went on paying JJ2OO, thus con'rihu'itg 1500 unnecessarily to tho revenue of tha colony. It is now proposed to sua the Ci own to recover the amount, I The question argued to-diy was whether the claim was barred by the Statute of Limitations or the Crown Suits Act, on which point decision was rtservsJ.