SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 222, 12 September 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SITTINGS. By Telegraph - Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The jury failed to agree in the Supreme Court action iu which dainngcs amounting to .C 11)40 Cs 2d were claimed by tlie Northern Coal Company from tiie Union Steamship Company in connection with the collision in the Auckland harbor between the Union Company's s.s. Wairuna and the Northern Coal Company's ketch Moonah on 10th March last. The jury retired at 5 o'(dCKik this evening, returning at 11 o'clock, the foreman intimating that they had failed 'either to agree or iJto obtain a three-fourth's majority. The case will accordingly/come on again at the next sittings of tha Court. PALMERSTON SITTINGS. Palmerston. N., Friday. ■Thomas Glceson, of Rongotea, wlio was found guilty at the Supreme Court of a breach of the Bankruptcy Act, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment without hard labor. In refusing probation, Judge Chapman said the Legislature intended that in a case like the present one the accused shold be punished with imprisonment. He expressed regiet at having to send to prison a young man of presumably good character, but he could not set at nought the provisions of tha Legislature.