SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 215, 9 March 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. By Telegraph—Press Association. " '; Napier, Last Nigkt. At the Supreme Court, Alfred Robprfei •, '4| Donaldson, charged with the theft, £23, moneys of Hawke's Bay Rugby f Union, and a cheque for £3, the pro- h perty of the Napier Corporation, was ;; acquitted. Kauru Martin, a Maori youth n who had pleaded guilty to a charge of theft from a dwelling and against whom there were 22 previous convictions, was < • sentenced to twelve months' imprison- A ment, and declared an habitual crimi- -j nal. Matthew Lynam, Who had pleaded ,'t' guilty to a charge of stealing from a dwelling, was admitted to probation for two years.- Whatutarewha Paikea, who : pleaded guilty to two attempts at arson at Te Aute, "was admitted to probation %* for two years, on condition that he went y on a farm approved by' the probation of? , fi'cer. Frederick Allan Potter was sentenced to one year's reformative treat-' ment at Invercargill Gaol for theft 5 from a dwelling. Grant Westboy, con-, 1 victed of perjury, was sentenced to two _.V years' imprisonment. Neil Campbell, convicted of common assault on a Maori, T'J was sentenced to twelve months' re- .jl formatory treatment. V'.'O