AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4380, 17 January 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Supreme Court Sessions. The quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court opened 10-day.- Judge Gilliea, in his charge to the Grand Jury, stated that there wen 37 persons^ charged with 29 offences. He remarked on the increase of orirrfe in the district, which he found it difljeulkto account tor. It was a aingular

fact that when one or two crim?s of a particular character happened in the district-* others generally followed. He had no doubt that sensational accounts in the newspapers had something to do with it. Such reports have a pernicious effect on young persons and. those of emotional temperaments. Referring Jo'the Hamilton murder case, he said that while investigating it, the Magistrate had done right in committing the prisoners on the evidence. The Grand Jury would have to be satisfied that the evidence was sufficient to warrant them believing the prisoners to be guilty before fiading a true bill. They could take no cognisance of any intention to produce further evidence, however serious the case, or strong the. suspicion of guilt might be.

The Grand Jury found true bills against B. O. Brigstock, and Owen Sims, for forgery; Mark Marks, and Sampson Josephson, for stealing from a shop; A. E. Long, for attempted parricide. .No bills were found against Annie Stackpole for concealment of birth; Hohaia for horse stealing; and Ellen Curtis, for steal* ing from the person. •>