SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2696, 9 August 1894, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

At Wellington F. Parsloe was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for forgery and uttering. He had just served a similar term for a similar offence.—John Wheeler, alias “ Crooked Mick,” convicted of larceny at Masterton, was sentenced to three months.—Reginald Blookley was convicted of forging and uttering a cheque for £lO, and was remanded for sentence. At Gisborne the Supreme Court was occupied all day with the case Crawford and others v. Dunlop, in which plaintiffs, who are the eight hotelkeepers of Gisborne, sued Mrs Dunlop, writer of a letter in the Herald on March 13, headed “ Revelations of the Trade,” and her husband, for £2500 damages, for alleged libel. Defendant’s counsel claimed that now the woman was given the franchise the husband could not be joined in the case, but Mr Just ce Conolly said that he would not like, to decide to that effect. The letter contained charges of gambling and robbing drunken men, adulteration of liquors, employment of women of the lowest reputation, and that the publicans annually robbed the public of £30,000. Justification was not pleaded, and the issues will be confined to whether the letter is a libel and the amount of damages.