SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 17 August 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Associt^on.. Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day the jury disagreed in a case in. which Frank Cootes, a 'Maori, was charged with assaulting and robbing Jas. Plaisted, at Otaki, on May 15. Bail Was allowed on accused's bond of £2OO, and twO:,' sureties of £IOO each. Kenneth Douglas and Melville Calders, for forging telegrams ..on a Wangantii resident in order to Gb'tain money, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and would be expected to pay .■Co towards cost of prosecution. Arthur Vincent Evens, charged with scratching fifteen pla-teglass windows with a diamond ring, was admitted- to probation for three years, and required to pay £75 for damage done, besides £lO towards the cost of prosecution.

PALMEHSTON SESSIONS. Palmerston N., Wednesday. 'At the Supreme Court to-day, the Chief Justice (Sir R. Stout) heard the appeal of the Borough Council against the magistrate's decision that the Opera House, where municipal pictures are shown, was a factory under the Factories Act. After legal argument, hjs Honor reserved his decision, remarking that at present it did not seem to him that an offence had been committed under the Act,