LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Supreme Court.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1910, 2 October 1884, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Supreme Court.

Auckland, Wednesday Night. The crinunial sessions commenced to-day. The Judge, in charging the Giand Jury, said the calendar was an exceptionally heavy one. both in number and in the gravity of offences. There were 30 persons committed, and they were charged with 23 different offences. Ot these 30 pei sons 13 w ei e M.ious, who had been committed on four different ch.uges. Only seven of 23 offences charged weie alleged to have been committed in thp outlying districts, the remainder having taken place in the city of Auckland and its neighbourhood. This was a sti iking contiast to a lecent sitting of the Com t, at which the majoiity ot the offences came from the outlying districts. There were five offences against the peison, and the balance weic offences against property in one shape oi another. Of these five cases against the poison, two consisted of the cinne of murder, one of stabbing, one of assault and robbery (although lie believed it would he placed before the jury in the form of laiceny fiom the pctsnn), and one of indecent as-uult upon a yiil Tho nnsoner in this la.-t case had only been iccently committed. The remaining charges, which weie offences against property, included some ten thefts of various soits, from burglary and sheepstuibng down to simple laiceny. Theiu were also tlnec cases of foigery, tlnte cases of false pretences, and onu of malicious injuiy to piopeity. One of t!ic chaigeb of minder was a case against a Maori man for the killing of a Maori woman, but the prisoner was so manifestly lunatic that he had been committed to the Asylum upon the outer of the Colonial Secretary. He would probably not come before the Court thcrefoie. If lie lecovered his sanity of co'iise he would be indicted The oth=r veiy senous case was one of infanticide. Thomas Honan, charged with larceny of a watch belonging to Heniy Richmond, was acquitted ; John Brown, for unlawfully wounding Joseph Welling, a /is)) hawker, was sentenced to six months.

At the Picsbytcry, to day, on the motion of fie Rev. Mr Fraser, seconded by Mr Canick, it was agreed that a call fiom Waikato West, to the Rev. B. Hut son, be sustained. Mr Hutson expressed his willingness to accept the call, and he will be instituted on the 16th inst , at Te Awaimitu,