SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 308, 21 May 1913, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON DIVORCE CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. A decree nisi was granted in the divorce suit Henry Ernest Harvey v. Ruby Ella Harvey and James Gilpin, misconduct. A CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, Henry Shapcott and his wife Sophia Francis, claimed £3OO general damages and £33 0s special damages from Melville H. Robertson, hotel keeper and motor car proprietor. The case arose out of an accident in which' Mrs. Shapcott was knocked down and run over by the car. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs with £175 general damages and £33 6s special damages.

THE WHANGAREI SHOOTING CASE. Auckland, Tuesday. The boy Sheahan, who fatally shot George Fyfe at Parahaki, was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School. Mr. Justice Edwards said he thought this was the best course in the prisoner's interest, it not being a case calling for imprisonment. The Judge, addressing the prisoner, said the crime was one of the gravest possible to commit, but he did not think, the prisoner was a vicious lad, ajid with careful discipline he should become a respectable member of the community. Sheahan, who is how 15 years old, will be kept in the Home till he is 21.

PALMERSTON SESSIONS. Palmerston, Tuesday. Tlie Supreme Court opened to-day with a very light criminal calendar. Groves andFairley, the gaol escapees, came up for sentence, the former getting six months for gaol-breaking and two years for forgery, the sentences to be concurrent, and . the . latter six months for gaol-breaking and two years for being illegally on premises, the sentences to be concurrent, and three years' reformative treatment. Both had a long list of previous convictions.