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SUPREME COURT.

OVEKWOKKED JUDUES. Per Press AasociaHou. Wangamii, Saturday. When the Supremo Court resumed tais morning, Mr. Harnieoat, senior member of the Bar, drew .Mr. Justice Cooper's attention to tlie necessity for more fie. inienl or more lengthy sitting* of tfc/J Court, lie pointed out tlml civil cases frequently had to stand over, audit was only due to the absence of criminal business flint hia Donor had been able to give time at the present sittings to civil cases.

}[r. Justice Cooper admitted the diffl-/ culty. and said thai, if business increased in the future in the Wellington district, where there were only two Judges, as it had in the past, some remedy must be found. Oilier towns in the Wellington disricl were in the same position as Wangamii, and there was an enormous •pressure of work. Jn Wellington alone, it was almost enough to keep two Judges going continuously. The Judges were overworked, and last year, his Honor said, he had had to sit on the Appeal Court right through the vacation into January. There was a move to abolish district courts. If this were carried out, his Honor suggested that the District Court Judges might be added to those of the Supreme Court. Wangamii, La*!. Sight. In connection with the suggestion made to Mr. Justice Cooper on Saturday that extra sittings of the Supreme Court should be held in Wangauui each year, an error was made in the telegram published by the evening papers. Referring to the District Court , his Honor said it had been proposed in the Judiciary Bill introduced last session to abolish the District Courts, but he had no knowledge whether that proposal would be introduced during the coming session of Parliament. If it were effected, and the business of the District Court transferred to the Supreme Court, it might result in the necessity for the appointment of additional Judges to cope with the work, So far as the Waiiganui application was concerned, his Honor said that in the districts usually i undertaken by the Wellington Judges there were fifteen circuitjsittings in the year, irrespective of sittings in Welling- ■ ton itself, and it was difficult under the • circumstances to see how four sittings could be arranged for the circuits of . Wangamii, Palinerston North and Na- . pier. There were at present only two ; Judges available for this work.

palheustox sittings. Palmerston, Saturday, The list of Supreme Court cases jdr the session commencing next containing only two criminal charges—one of perjury and tlie other of assault and causing bodily harm. There are a couple of divorce cases and fourteen civil actions, including a cjaim of 3J601 preferred by E. Essex, late -MayorOf Palmerston, against E. D. Hoben, editor of the Jlanawatu Daily Times/ for alleg. Ed liliel. Another newspaper proprietor figures in the list, J. K. Hornblow, of the Foxton Herald, being defendant in a claim for £3Ol, also for alleged libel, at the suit of W. Hamer, of Foxton. D. Koss, bookmaker, of Wellington, proceeds against the llana-watu Racing Club, claiming £IOOO damages for alleged injury to his character by the refusal of a license to bet on the second day of the Manawatu races in April.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 143, 8 June 1908, Page 2

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SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 143, 8 June 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 143, 8 June 1908, Page 2

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