SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 50, 21 August 1911, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington. Last Night. Tlic Supreme Court sittings were continued yesterday (before his Honor Mr. Justice Sim. Arthur Frederick Charles Davis, who was convicted the previous day of having received a ring, valued at £l3, knowing it to have 'been stolen, came up for sentence. Prisoner's counsel applied for probation, and after argument, .His Honor remanded Davis until Monday. Wellington, Saturday. At the Supreme Court to-day Roi'iert Parratt <\v«s sentenced to la months' imprisonment for cowardly assault on a man with whom he had "been drinking. AUCKLAND SESSIONS. * Auckland, Saturday. In the Supreme Court a decree nisi wins granted to Frederick Richard Anstice against Flora Matilda Anstiee. The parties were married in Wellington in lM,i. Petitioner stated that when living in (icraldine he . sent his wife to a nursing home at TSmnru to be confined, rnstead she went to Dunedin, and later he met her in Dunedin, and asked her ■why she had cleared out, and whom was she living with. She replied: "Mick W'md in Lagan street." He denied being cruel to his wife.

Mr. Judge Ward sniil that the petitioner was no doubt the cau=e of his wife leaving him. but he would give her the benefit of the doubt and get rid of him. He grunted a decree nisi, but granted no costs.