SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2068, 8 October 1885, Page 2

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Auckhno, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court this day, Maud Edith Churton, for maliciously breaking a pane of glass, value £20, wan fined in that amount, and ordered to find one surety to keep tlio peace, or in default to be mv prisoned for throo months. John Flay, » youth of 15, charged with indecent assault on a girl of 14, wan found guilty of common assault, with a recommendation to mercy, and sentence wan deferred until to-day. Isabella Miller was arrainged on a chage of concealment of birth at Whangarei, and being found not guilty she war discharged.

Wednesday. At the Supreme Court to-day. Flay was convicted of common assault, and ordered to find sureties for hfa good behaviour. John Diguati was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for stealing the yacht Ariel. Little was discharged. . |b itklkgraph.—press association.] J|

Wellington*, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court thin morning the following were sentenced :—Chas. E. Wat■on, for receiring itolen property, twelve months ; J. A. Gordon, larceny at bailee, six year* ; E. Price, atealing,* six year* ; J. Cummings, larceny, three years. Philip Sainways, charged with the larceny of a watch, was found not guilty, and discharged. George Thomas Skinner pleaded guilty to forgery and uttering, and sentenced was deferred until to-morrow. The Court adjourned until Thursday, when the Hutt case will be taken.

tarring Dukkoin, TtMtday. At the criminal sittings to^ftfe Maria Scanlon was found guilty of iiliniailpbi illimi skirt. It had been sent to the owver by a firm of dnvjK3r», but as no one was at home it wan left in an outhouse. Charles Maxim and John McPherson were also found guilty of robbinga countryman named Campbell of £30. They had sheltered him for some time, and getting him into a right-of-way, eased him of his money. Sentence was deferred in both instances. John Atkinson and Daniel McLaren, charged with robbing a Chinaman, were found not guilty.

Wheat is cheaper now than it has been for nearly 100 years. The new English Premier is not of very prepossessing appearance, and at the Berlin Conference looked clumsy and coarse alongside of the picturesque and romantic figure of Disraeli, lie is pictured by a good pen painter us a very unwieldy and very ugly man. Maasive, and at the earns time ill■haped anil flabby, with a corporation far beyond him years, and shoulders broad and stooped, he is as ungainly a specimen of a * man as there it in either Houso of Parlia- f moat. Then his face, which is unhealthily pallid, it surrounded by bristling, black, dishevelled hair, which leaves scarcely a bit of his cheeks uncovered ; the eyes are set and lia\ea curiously sombre and furtive look, and altogether he looks what would fee called a hulking customer. He is, however, extremely genial and agreeable in private con vernation. Though his speeches breathe raucar and fire and brimstone, he talks quietly and reasonably, and his boasted imperiousneds of will is understood to hide real infirmity of purpose. He is almost a despotic ruler of the House of Lords, which registers his wishes as the ConserYfttivo lender.