SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2417, 5 October 1886, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(Umitbd Pbebs Association.)

Wellington, this day. True bills were found as followsWm Templeton, aliaq Woods, alias Piper, bursary; Titokowaru and other, niajieious injury; same, forcible entry ; Charles ffodgstin, embezzlement (two counts). William Tompleton, alias Woods, alias

Piper, was arraigned on a charge that he i did,'on the 20th September lost, enter .the; Empire Hotel, und steal therefrom sis coats, sis waistcoats, twelve pairs of tryuaera, and two suits of boys' clothes, the whole to the value of £8 9d, the property of Robert Sutherland.■ - r His Honor, in passilijr' sentence, said that prisoner seemed to hava entered on a course of crime which it was doubtful to say he would ever abandon. Prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor, in the Terrace Gaul.

Auckland, October 4.

Judge Ward, addressing the Grand Jury at the opening of the criminal sessions, expressed regret that on the first occasion of lus presiding hore, the calendar should be the heaviest known in Auckland for- many years. Seasons of commeroial depression invariably produce the crime, but lie sincerely trusted that the long list of criminal cases now boforo him was not to be taken as a fair indication of the stato of the. mercantile barometer in the North. He then pro ceeded to comment upon the charges, of which there are lio fewer than 46 to be dealt with.

Chrisxouuruh, October 4. It is alleged that a German naiiied A. H. IJorth has forged the namo of J. G. Ruddenklau totwo:chequeß on tho Bank of New Zealand for £5 ]4s and £4 6a respectively. He presented them to a tradesman in Chrlstchurch and obtained tho cash. Korth is of smart, gentlemanly appearance, and speaks English well. He is of rather brown completion; as if sunburnt, and lately representing himself as a Freethought lecturer, Korth was arrested to-day. The criminal sitting opened to-day, boforo Mr Justice Johnston.. It was arranged that the Grand Jury shall con-' aider the bills iu the Hall and Houatau cases on Friday, In his charge, the Judgo said, that the Justices at Timkr'u had aoted very properly in committing Hall and Houston for. trial at. Christchurch, so that certain-objections arising from local prejudices and feeling might bo removed. There was uot throughout the district any.increaie of crime,