SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 318, 18 February 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

ciiristchurcii sittings. By Teleg'apii.—Press 1 Association. :hristchurch, Lust Night. At the Supreme Court to-morrow, a special fjisp will he argued in connection with a claim by the Hoard of Governors of Canterbury Colic.?,, for compensation to the extent of over .-CMJQO in respect of portion of the Hoard's Craigiehurn run taken by the Public Works Department for the ourposes of the Midland railway line. The* special case is for the purpose of determining some preliminary questions of luw ws to the Crown's liability to pay corim •■!- sation for the whole or any part of i i • land taken, and will be preliminary ;«■■ further proceedings before the AsV'..--ment Court. PALMERSTON SITTINGS. Palmerston X., Last At the Supreme Court to-day Archibald Muir was charged with ' stealing cheques to the value of ,£BOO. The jury disagreed, and » new trial was ordered. Abraham Connelly was found guilty of indecent assault on a little girl 'aged seven, his adopted daughter, and <*«. tenced to three years' imprisonment. AUCKLAND SITTINGS. Auckland, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, Thomas Patterson was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for perjury. Horace Wilson, for indecent assault an two children, was sentenced to <ivn years' imprisonment, with hard labor, .and a flogging of ten lashes. A Mao-i named Hone Tareha. charc-ed with on offence against a girl under 1(1 rears, was also sentenced to live years' imprisonment.