SUPREME COURT.
NAPIER SESSIONS. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Napier, Friday. In the Supreme Court Alexander Ferguson was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for assault with serious intent.
GISBORNE SESSIONS. Gisborne, Friday. Judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Chapman in the Supreme Court today in the case William Knox Chambers v. William Lissant Clayton, Geo. Hutchison, and the East Coast Petroleum Company, heard at the last sittings of the court. Judgment was for plaintiff, with costs, as on an action fori £IOOO, his Honor holding that the trust agreement made in 1906 by the parties to action that they should combine to acquire petroleum concessions with the object of selling such concessions to a larger company in London had not been set aside.
NAPIER SESSIONS. Napier, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, Robert Marks was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and fined £5 for assault causing actual bodily harm at Hastings. An old man named Robert Gunning Bell was charged with carnally knowing a girl between twelve and thirteen years of age. The jury failed to agree, and a new trial was fixed for next week.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 5
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185SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 5
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