SUPREME COURT.
Criminal Smilo&i.
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■ Monday, The criminal sitting of the 3upreme Court opened this charges being of a very ordinary character. The Chief? Justice Baid there was a steady increase in the number of persons committed for trial, but he hoped as thd 'population increased there would than a proportionate quantity of crime. The character of cases on the list Beemed to indicate ft class of persons who appeared to get their living by picking up drunken men and robbing them. It, looked as if ft good deal of the population in the towns was of an undesirable class. He did not mean to say there was anything like aotual violence, but there could be no doubt the kind of crime he had referred to existed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3976, 30 November 1891, Page 2
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127SUPREME COURT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3976, 30 November 1891, Page 2
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