SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2067, 6 October 1885, Page 2

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

[b\ iEirnn\i'if.--o\\fj eounisroMM'VT.] Alcm \M), Monday. Till' Snpiome Omit crininial Regions opened to day. Judge (.Jdlies, 1" charging the (Jrind Juiy, said .—Tho calendar i-> soiucwli.it immeioti'. as to tho nuinbei of poisons dinged. No less than 23 peirons .ire charged with 21 offences, but with some slight exceptions the offences aie not of u soi ions cLv acter. Eight .ire alleged to have been committed in tho City of Auckland, and 13 in the county distucts. The most serious ch.uge is that of an attempt on thepirt of a in in to minder lih wife. He has been comn itted cm a chaige of attempted minder and will piobably be indicted for that offence. I think it is pmbab'e that when you look into the paiti eulars of tho case you will scircely find evidence sufficient to sustain the cli irgo of .ittempted murder Wilful mm dor can only be committed of malice aforethought, that i-, with prodoteiinmeJ intentinn to commit the ciime. In tins matinee the .ictii.il ciiinf* appears to have In en committed im i . i.l I n buist of ang.-i b\ the husband .vlio, ip.-irenf y fiom the depositions w.i'. inn illy a sober and well-b-li.ued man, ajri n>t his wite, who ««e.i in- to hive been drunk, and to hay» pmw.k.'d ln>n veiy Honously Immediately alterwaids he went and delivered hmwelf nn t.. the p >lice'" The jury found Gloxei guilty "f kucenv fimii Mix White's dwelling at Mangel c, md lie was so iteneed to two months nnpiis.inmcnt. Tanwluti lloretalm and Isa ie Siha, for catrle-ste ilmg at \longonni, weie iM'ntenced to twehe months. .James Milne, foi larceny of clothing belonging to John (iilmour, Symonds.street, was sentenced to twelve niontht. Tho (iiand Jmy found ti u« bills in the follow intr cases —(Jeoige Jone«, impel xmation ; Nathaniel Weston. stabbing. No bill: Michael Keary, personation. The pnsoner was dischaiged. [lt\ ITLKOKYPH. — rilKsS VSSOCI\riOS.] Wkilivijtov, Monday. The Supieine Coiut ciimmal sessions opened this morning before Mr Justice Richmond. The charge to the Crand Jmv was unimportant. No bills weie returned against John Smith, laicency, .1. J. and Selma Mooio, for admniisteimg poison to John Scari.uneh, and the piisoin>n were dischiuged. In the c.iso of Walden. chaiged with assaulting Muir, at the Ifntt, tine bills were biought on two separate indictments, one of wounding and 11111 eating, and the other of choking with intent. The case will be taken on Tliuisday. Chailes James, laiceny, was sentenced to two yoais' hard laboui ; Chas. Edward Watson, laiceny of a watch and chain; J. Alo\. (Joulon, larceny as bailee of a spring cait; Edward l'lice, lioiso stealing, were found guilty, and sentences defence! until to-monow. CiniJfll'l'Hl'RCH, Monday. The cilitinal sitting opuned to-day. Justice Johnston congi itulated the Gninti Jmy on tho light calendai. Tho following sentences weio passed •—Aithur Jennctt, berttialitv, se\en years penal seuitude; John OBrien, btoalmg funn a dwelling, five years.

An ominent physician thinks tfja^ inqn shoul! not inn aftor they reach 10. li is impossible to overlook the giguitio cue ilation which the revelations of the Pall Sj. ill (!a/ette commanded in Vans. Tho publicity they attamod 1 due to multiple cuises, one of which certainly was a tante for prunency. The others were pro-.* pnterpnso and competition, natmal curiosity, and .i desire to find matter for hr»mng at the Joseph Suifaceisin of wealthy Englishmen. The Pall Mall (la/.etto ie\elati«ns If.w^ had an Jsmjo ()f about fom hundred thousaiul in jLondon. Jn 1/arls the issue of them has Ivcri in millions. They cuue out in gi.itis Kupi)loments, in nowspaßei piemiums, by themselves, on coaise pajier, the cheapness of which enables the jm^. hshoi- to sell them for five centime*, as feu\lie,toii6, and ill bei'ials,