SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 199, 27 September 1909, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

WAXGAXUI SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. WANGANUI, Sept. 25. At the Supreme Court this morning Samuel Meatyard, late manager of the Wanganui branch of the U.F.C.A., was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for falsifying the books. John Alexander Angus, against whom there were fifteen previous convictions, and who pleaded guilty to theft at New Plymouth, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on each of three chargesand declared a habitual criminal.

DIVORCE COURT. WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. The petition of Nellie Nora Robertson lor the dissolution of her marriage with Edward Robertson on the ground of desertion, was dismissed to-day by Mr. Justice Chapman. Petitioner left her home at Gastleclill", Wanganui, in October, 1003, owing, she alleged, to the violence of her husband. His Honor held that petitioner had failed to prove her ease.

AA'ESTFORT SESSIONS. AA'esfcport, Saturday Night. At the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Demiiston presiding, Leslie Andrews was found guilty of indecent assault on a girl on the Dennwton-Burnetts Face lioad, and was admitted to probation for twelve months, with the condition that he must not be in hotels or take spirits or liquors, a plea of drunkenness having been set up as part of the defence. Accused was ordered to -pay £ls expenses. liomany Karooz, charged on three counts with committing perjury during tlie hearing of an assault caiA in the Magistrate's Court, was found not guilty. In the appeal of Thomas Marsden v. the AVestport Coal Company a claim for £l3 .'is for the loss of a ton of luggage through a truck on the Dcnniston inc3i|ie Incoming derailed, jud"luent was reserved. The Court sits on 'Monday to hear' a charge of alleged slander.