SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

TII'KEE YEARS FOR »STEALINU TWO BOTTLES OF JJEKU! By Telegraph.—Press Association.* Wellington, Last Night. Norman Eraser, for stealing two bottles of beer, was sentenced to three years* imprisonment. WELLINGTON SESSIONS. Wellington. Last Night. At the Supreme Court 10-day Norman L'rasei- was found guilty o! stealing two bottles of beer and was remanded tor sentence. I:!. .). Searle, who was yesterday convicted of forgery, was further nuiaudeil for sentence I ill ne\l Wednesday, the probation oilicer 10 report in the meantime. Joseph Uelich. alias Dante, was convicted of stealing a bicwle and -euUitccd to 18 mouths' hard labor.. .John I'echugin and Stephen Niehelsen, young men, pleaded not guilt,v to a charge of assaulting a Chinaman in Wellington. The case was not conelud • ed when the Court ro.ie.

UESTIUVTION OK A NOI'SK. A CLUM FOR DA.MAOKS. Auckland. La-4 Niglu. An action arising out of a tire which occurred at Mount I'o-kill on November !Hll was begun before .Mr. -lu-tice ft Iward?* at the Supremo Court to-day. The plaintill' in the action was Sidney Harold Darrach, a confectionery manufacturer, who claimed .CUKSI) damages from Alfred Bridginan, a storekeeper, for alleged negligence in leaving a burning dust-heap alongside, his factory, and I U»K ihe plaintiff claimed, causing the I factory to be burnt down. The ease was not concluded.