SUPREME COURT.
(l!Y Tlil.KG RAMI— OWN" CORRESPONDENT). Auckland, Monday. Robert Stkvexsox came up for examination. Air Gave, on behalf of the Official Assignee, asked the judge to exercise summary jurisdiction under Clause 71, <->f the Bankruptcy Act, debtor not having kept any proper books. After hearing the evidence, His Honour said he had always been loth to exercise summary jurisdiction under this Act, but the present case was so clear that he would not be doing his duty but setting tho spirit of the Act entirely at defiance if he did not. He would sentence the bankrupt to four months' imprisonment with li-it'd labour. Mr O'-Me:igher made application under the lurst Offenders Probation Act on behalf of Stevenson. His Hon.ir saH that tho spirit of this Act was only intended to have reference to offences committed on tha spur of sudden impulse and could not be brought to bear in such a case as tho present.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2576, 15 January 1889, Page 2
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156SUPREME COURT. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2576, 15 January 1889, Page 2
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