SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 52, 10 June 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

CHfiISTCHURCH SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchureh, June !). Rawson Webster, aged twenty-two. and Harold Armstrong, aged twenty, ed guilty to a charge of breaking and entering, and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In the petition of Amelia Derrett for judicial separation from her husband'. Robert Derrett. jockey and train, er. on the grounds of ill-treatment, evidence was heard to-day, respondent denying the allegations. PALMERSTON SESSIONS. Palmerston North. List Night. Tn the SiinreniP Court to-day. before Mr. Justice Cooper. Robert Patrick Daly was convicted of stealing a gold watch. He was admitted to probation for two years. The libel case, Victor M. Braund v. K.j D. Hoben, editor of the Manawatu Dnilv, Times, was commenced. The claim is| for £")01 damage* for alleged libel arising out of a paragraph contained in a, report on Millar and Giorgi's fire, which occurred at the time of the Powelka scare. The paragraph is as follows: — "Mr. Warner states that at Millar and Ciorgi's fire an individual, claiming to be I an assessor, attempted to interfere with him in carrying wit his duty." A similar action is being brought against Mr. Warner, superintendent of the Fire Brigade. The case for the prosecution is finished, and the <lefence will be heard I to-morrow.