SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 28 May 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. Auckland, May 27. At the. Supreme Court a Maori named Ti Ahiibi 'lihi pleaded guilty to forgery at Tlnntly and sentence was deferred. John Marioribanks was sentenced to 18 moiuiis' imprisonment on each of four charges of lalse pretences, the sentences to be eoncuirent. Prisoner, who pleaded guilty, said lie had been drinking heavily at tiie time he tendered the bogus cheques for various goods. An 'Mel ly man named Richard Walton was sentenced to six months for stealing a mare, the property of Colin Adams, of Cambridge, lie borrowed the horse from informant's son, and tried to borrow ,cl on it from a man, and offered it for sale to another for 30s. Later, meeting the owner of the horse, he said he bought it along the Fast Coast, ami offered to let him have it for £2 and to give any trial desired. Accused tedd the jury he had been drinking and would not have sold the pony lor half the money iu Cambridge. Eveland Taylor, a middle-aged man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecent assamt on a little girl. The jury found him guilty, and sentence was deferred. Wellington, May 27. At the Supreme Court to-dav Wm. Agale b, ought an action claiming £SO damage frcm Stephen Judil for .slander. Tile jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for one ta. thing damages. Judgment was en'eru! accordingly without costs.