SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10171, 22 February 1911, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SITTINGS

; By Telegraph— Tress Association. , ;."> ■ ~, ' BLENHEIM, Last"Night.,..' The Supreme Court sittings opened this moriiangi l, before Mr Justice Chapman, who congratulated the dis" itrict on the absence of crime. There i is not a long calendar, the only. Serious case being a charge of assault againsta man. i Henry Collins, for sheep-stealing, was ordered to come up for .sentence \vhen called upon, and to pay £5 to thecosts of the prosecution.; Pro- J bation was not allowed owing to a I conviction thirty-three years ago. - j ; The Grand Jury found a true bill,' in the assault case against Charles. Hegglun. , NAPIER CASES. r, By Telegraph—Press Association. ■' NAPIE-;, Last Night. ' Addressing'the Grand Jury at the opening of ihe Sirpreme Court today, Sir Robert Stout regretted that he could not congratulate "the district on -the smallness,. of the calendar, which charges against thirteen prisoners, though none of the cases were of a serious charac*ter. Decrees nisi were granted in the following divorce cases:— Nellie Burnett O'Reilly v. Edward O'Reilly, desertion ; Robert Loosemore Williams v. Emma Mona Williams and Redmond Everard (co-respondent), adultery ;. Minnie Brock v. Henry Brock, desertion.