SUPREME COURTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1497, 9 October 1886, Page 3

SUPREME COURTS.

Auckland, Oct. 7. George Harcourt, late mine manager at the Thames, was sentenced at the Supreme Court this morning to twelve months’ hard labor on a charge of embezzlement. Henry Williams, for the larceny of pig iron, received six months’ hard labor, Wellington, Oct. 7. Alfred Waters, convicted yesterday of forgery, was sentenced this morning to 18 months’ hard labor, subject to the decision of the Court of Appeal whether a cheque not being filled in could bo held to be a forgery. Christchurch, Oct. «. At the Supreme Court to-day Frederick Percy Hunt was convicted of indecent assault upon a girl eight years cf age, and sentence was deferred. Geo. Brown, for unlawfully wounding, was sentenced to six months’ hard labor. He had stabbed a young man with a pocket knife. Jas, Castles, for violent assault, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor. Oct. 7. John Hanwell was found guilty of perjury, Sentence was deferred, Dunedin, Oct. 6. At the Supreme Court to-day Thomas Medder and Thomas Eeglick were found guilty of stealing a rope fender, and John Patrick Davis of passing counterfeit coin, sentence in each case being deferred, Oct. 8. Lewis Thompson, for arson, got seven years, and Mary Docherty, for a similar offence, six months. The Judge intimated that the latter was a proper case for the Crown to exercise its clemency, as the principal offender was convicted mainly through her exertions. The Judge, in dealing with the Chinaman’s case, eulogised the Probationers Act, but was satisfied were he to extend its operations to the Chinese it would not have the effect of causing respect for our law among them.