SUPREME COURTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8985, 20 November 1907, Page 5

SUPREME COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. By Telegraph —Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, November 19. At the Supreme Court to-day, Rowland Wilfred Langdown \va3 acquitted 011 a charge of making a fal«e statement to the Registrar of Marriages concerning the age of his wife. James Mclntyre was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for burglary, and Frank Tayler to eighteen months.

WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, November 19. At t'i'e Supreme Court, to day, George Cowan, who had been found guilty of stealing £l3 belonging to David Morgan, at Feilding, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. Patrick Briely, charged with committing damage in a Palmerston North hotel was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. A young man, named Daniel Desmond O'Brien, was charged with stealing £4, a watch, a kni'e and a key from the person of Jacob Sorensen, at Dannevirke. Prisoner pleaded not guilty to stealing, but admitted , taking 30s of Sorensen's money. This plea was accepted by the Crown Prosecutor, and prisoner was remanded till Saturday for the probation officer's report. Thomas Hayes, a young man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a sovereign case and £5 10s from a dwelling at Dannevirke. Accused was found not guilty.