SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 19, 10 June 1914, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday, fti t&e Supreme Court, Frederick , Bchiaich, indent agent, was sentenced •uc momtua' hard labor for converting to his own use a cheque for £lO received by him from the Government in respect of a contract executed by his employers, Hughes a»4 Ooasar. A COMPENSATION CASE. Invercargill, Tuesday. The hearing of the ca*o in which O. B. Wise claimed £ 65fl and Z. 0. Hood £l7O from the Southland County Council as damages through a motor-cur run- ' ning into an unprotected and iarafAcicntly lighted excavation, concluded in . the Supreme Court. The jury found for plaintiffs. Wihe was awarded £ISS-)0| 6d and Hood £7l 12s fid, with CMts. NAPIER SESSIONS. _ u „ Napier, Tueaday. The Supreme Court opened with a very light criminal calendar. Mr. Ju# tice Honking was welcomed by the bar. Roy King pleaded guilty to the theft of a motor-car and to discharging a firearm at Fred Lowe.- Sentence waa defer-' red. TIMARU OASES. ITima.ru, Last Night . At tthte Supreme Court criminal sea- ' sions there were only three offender*. A young Maori pleaded guilty*, to fo»- ; ing his brother's name to a postal order v for £1 3a <sd, and stealing the annoy.,. . H« was fined £lO, or imprisonment vp ,h tio thTcc montus i.il the fine i» paid, m defence, it was stated tfhat there was a •: good deal of looseness among itiie natives in Handling one another.* letters. ... The Test of the day was occupied ia '' hearing a case of carnal knowledge of;'.-. a girl lof 13 _ years at Waimate, and . late thin evening the jury found JjUf' accused, James Lindsay, a horse traflfe - guilty. He will be sentenced >»HWo morning, when the Geraldine nrdjßer ' case comes on. THEFT FIWM A CHINAMAN. Invercargill, Last Night. ' At Supreme Court ithw afternoon, in the case of Ueorgc Williams, J charged with theft from a Chinaman at RiTorton, the jury returned *a verdict of - guilty with a strong recommendation to. mercy. The accused was allowed eight - een monUhe' probation, the period Gffbe reduced to twelve if during that time- " he refunded tne £7 stolen, payment to be made at the rate of 10s per nmrih." _ Napier, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, lawanl George Mcßolberta, charged with manslaughter toy causing the death of John -. McAd.ims at Waipawa,, wa* found' not guilty. ■ ■"