SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 102, 27 May 1909, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

UAM.MIKS I'OI! l.llllHi. By Telegraph.—Fruss Association. Puhiatua, Wednesday. Jll the libel action by Chas. Larsen, tanner, another fanner, Patrick UeClatferiy, a claim of C 250 on the ground that defendant had referred m letters to business linn; to the plaintiff as a. "housc-linnier," and accusing him of having set lire to the house oi a settler, the jiu) awarded pJttintitl' JidU. A "SIIOCKI.W' CltillE. Auckland, Wednesday, Kobert Cnrr, who was found guilty last session of shooting Captain Mcwett at Dnrjyivillc, ami in whose favor a point was reserved for the Court of Appeal, was to-day sentenced to two yearn' imprisonment, with hard labor. Judge Edwards said the crime was a particularly shocking one, as accused had deliberately shot at a man who had saved lii.s life, when that man was trying to prevent two men from quarrelting. His Honor declined to accept overindulgence ill liquor US an excuiie.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. j Auckland, Lust Xiglit. At tile Supreme Court this afternoon, Alfred Brewer, alias C. Anderson, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, at lvihikilii, forged a cheque for £lO, and by means of a false pretence induced J. Ikthurst, at 'l'c Awatnutu, to cash the cheque. Prisoner endeavoured, without much success, to prove that ne drunk. The jury, without retiring, brought in a verdict of guilty, and prisoner was remanded for sentence. Knmeka, a -Maori, was convicted of having fraudulently converted various sums of money to his own uso. He was sentenced to a year's imprisonment with hard labor.