SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 156, 23 June 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

I NELSON SITTINGS. ; By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Nelson, Last Night." The Grand Jury threw out the (bill against Clias. Breckland, charged vitfa' manslaughter on account of the coach/ accident at Appleby in which a wonwro was killed. At the Supreme Court to-day, Jjimj-.a Williamson, charged with unlawfully • " carnally knowing a girl under 10 • lit. Puponga, was acquitted. The trial of Haliness and Anderson on a charge nf . the murder -of ,T. Burke at Westport, wfll commence to-morrow. - >\ NAPIER SITTINGS. Napier, Monday. , At /the Supreme Court William Matthews came up foqgpentcnce for making a false declaration before the Registrar under the Marriage Act,. He was sen-- ' fenced to six months' imprisonment. Kichard Croker, licensee of the Kuripa- ■ pango accommodation house was fined! £4O and costs for sly-grog selling. k At the Supreme Court to-day, Edward Coylc nnd William Cameron ~ali&B Joseph Howard, were charged with breaking and entering at Woodville. Coy's whs found not guilty and was discharged. Cameron, who was found guilty, was remanded for sentence. Thomas' Merlin, found, guilty of assaulting Thos. James MeGra'th, a teamster, at Wairoa, was sentenced to eighteen months' iriiprisonment.