THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 375, 28 April 1910, Page 5

THE COURTS.

A HEAVY FINE. By Telegraph —Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Edwin Phelp was fined £IOO at the Magistrate's Court for making -a false declaration regarding uncustomed goods. Defendant pleaded guilty, but urged mitigating circumstances, the matter having been due to inadvertence. The Magistrate said the case was one for the minimum penalty, so fined defendant £IOO and reduced it to £25.

A MAORI PLEADS GUILTY TO FORGE It Y. Blenheim, Wednesday. A Maori named Matthew Puhipi,* arrested at Huntiy, was charged art' the Court this morning with forging and uttering a cheque for £7 10s and obtaining goods and money valued at £ll 9s (id by false pretences. He pleaded guilty in two cases and was remanded to Wellington for sentence. A BOOKMAKER FINED. Gisborne, Wednesday. James Hutton was fined £2O for street betting, in default two months' hard labor, the Magistrate overruling the defence that a bet taken oil a hotel doorstep was not betting in a street. THEFT ON A STEAMER. Wellington, Wednesday. Joseph Walker, a trimmer on the Moeraki, pleaded guilty to-day to theft of £l2O worth of jeweMery, etc., the property of Miss Ethel Beatrice Miles, a .passenger to Sydney by the Moeraki on Bth April. Prisoner was committed for sentence. A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED murder; Wellington, Wednesday. Henry James Hansen was charged yesterday with attempted murder of his son Arthur at Ngunguru on loth April. The hearing lasted until a late hour last night. Accused pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence. He was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, no bail being asked. The son, who was shot in the groin by the father, said in evidence that lie crawled under « bed after being shot. His father observed him there and remarked: "Oh, you're there, are you? Say your prayers now, old man. You're dying. You're the man that was going to take his mother and brothers away. Yon won't take them where you're going. You're going to hell."