SUPREME COURT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13524, 4 November 1911, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

AT WELLINGTON. (Pci United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. November 4. The fo-iovving prisoners wore sentenced by the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court —Walter Henry Maisteu, breaking and entering and theft, declared to be an habitual criminal, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment; Herbert Metford, theft from a dwelling, was sentenced to 18 months’, with two years’ reformative treatment; John Keogh, theft from a dwelling, was similarly sentenced, Henry Edward Whiteman and Leonard Edwards, who had admitted charges of arson and breaking and oilier mg and theft, were to-day admitted to probation for two years by the Chief Justice, the accused being ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution, and not to enter a puhlieiiouso for two years, or to be seen talcing aleoholie liquor. The offence was attributed to drunkenness, though the licensed wore stated not to be drunkards in the ordinary sense.