SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 362, 13 April 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

THE AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. In the Supreme Court Judge Edwards sentenced Bernard Huse, aged seventeen, to 1 twelve months' imprisonment for wounding a cow at Helensville: and Harold W. Smith, for theft of money from his employer, to two years' hard labor.

George Frederick Hulme, aged sixteen, convicted of breaking and at Hamilton, was admitted to probation, his lapse being attributed to reading sensational literature.

A half-caste Maori lad, named William Arthur, for breaking and entering and theft, and forgery and uttering at Grisbome, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each charge, sientences to be cocurrent.

A Maori named Rutene, aged twentytwo, pleaded 'guiltv to a charge of indecent assault at Whakatane. and asked for probation, as it was his first offence. The Judge rema.rked that the morality of sexes was different amongst Maoris, who must not be judged on the same level as a highly civilised community. Prisoner was admitted to probation for twelve months. Frank Tozer was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for forgery. Charles Edward Stuart, aged thirty, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for an unnatural offence. John Thompson was admitted to probation for two years for breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime at Ongarne. He entered the railway, station while muddled with drink, in the hope of getting more.