SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 135, 29 May 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

DUNEDIN SESSIONS. Per Press Association. Dunedin, Lust Night, Tile Supreme Court was occupied nil day with the charge of manslaughter against Joseph C'Hldoi, resulting from the collision in the lower harbor on April 18. The case was not finished when the Court roso. WANG AN UI SESSIONS. Wangainii, Thursday. i At the Supreme Court to-day 'JiiineS ' l-'laploton was sentenced to two years' for theft and was declared a habitual criminal. i A civil action, George Hutchinson, exM.P., v. Muldrock is now proceeding. The ease arises out of a power of attoriiev given hv plnintiir to defendant when lie'left for' South Africa in 11)01). Muldroek managed defendant's farm at Waverley, two sections of which are native

land and still held under restrictions. The property was leased by Hutchison to Hazelhurst when the former left the Dominion. Hazclhurst gave up the lease, assigned it to Muldrock who "uas held t'iio property since. The main point at issue, is whether or not Muldrock is still plaintiff's trustee or was ho releasenl from that position by a document given him in South Africa. Plaintiff asks defendant to be declared a trtlstee.