SUPREME COURTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2946, 2 June 1891, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

(])>• TKI.IJUU.U'II-OVV.V COIIIIKSI'ONnKNT.) Al'CKl.axd, Tjist Night, At tiio Supremo Court cnmiii;i! se-sions, thu Judge's charge wiik cuntim il to a hrii-f review nf tlie case-*. Juliii Henry Taylor was sentenced to twjive months f.T stpalintr a watch and csshbnx from the Piovincial 1 Hotel; Uustave Adolf Petersen to twelve ■ ii'intlis fur burglary ; John Richard Con>iiiino to tliroo ye-.us for stealing from a Maori woman at Mm Thames Hotel, and Matthew Charles Parsons to four months for the same offence. (UY TKLIiCKAI'II—I-RK.-iS ASSOCIATION-.) Ul.s'kih.v, Last Night. In pi aon nf presentment tlio foreman of H1.3 (fraud Jury s iid that the feeling among the Grand Jury was th it such a body was of no use. Mr Justice Williams, while admitting that a good deal might be sail) in favour of that view, remarked that the institution had stood the te*t of over 100 years experience in the United States and while many reforms had obt lined in that progressive country, this institution remained untouched, therefore it must possess some inherent merit". Judge Williams in his charge to the Grand Jury dealt with thu odendar which is unusually light, (fengo Clarke pleaded guiltv t> embezzling the funds of the Prince of Wales Lodge, Manchester Unity, at Port Chalmers. His counsel urged in extenuation that the absence of proper checks furnished a temptation to crime. Accused was sentenced to throe years. Wellington, Last Night. The S lpreme Court opened this morning, Judge Prondergast presiding. The calendar contains the names of ten poisons, the charges being for the must put of an ordinary character. Referring to the case against Coleman Phillips for dummyism, His Honour said there, were two indictments—(l) Inciting certain persons to inulce a wilful falsa declaration ; (2) Hiding and abetting them to commit a breach of the Land Act. After reviewing the Act at length and the evidence of the lower court, the learned Judge said, although he had feone very carefully through the Lmd Act", lia could find notions: expressed in its provisions to prevent anyone taking up land for another. This, however, was a point of law, an 1 he directed tlio U rand Jury, if they th.night the facts warranted it, to living in a Hill against Phillips, and leave the poiot for argument when the case came before the common jury. His Honour rein ukccl that the legislature were evidently under the impression tint tliey hud made iMovision in the Act to prevent peisuis obtaining land on deferred payment or special lease not exclusively for their own use, as Section l.'i has fixed a pen tlty tube indicted in the ca.-e of anyone taking up land other than for his own use. In the Supreme Court to-day, Amy Jackson, alias Urooks, for larceny at Palmeiston North, received two months' with hard labour ; James Mclnnes, alias Many Morley, for arson at .Masterton, three years' penal servitude ; James Cleary and Michael P Cronin, for larceny, were acquitted. The (fraud Jury found a true bill against Coleman Phillips for breaches of the Land Act, and threw out the bill against Charles .Strong for rape. CHiHSTCHirnuH, Last Niaht. The criminal sittings closed at -1 p.m. Win. Marshall McDowell who pleaded guilty to stealing £30 from the Black Horse Hotel, was sentenced to six months' hard labour. Thos. Ilartington Conway was found guilty of stealing a watch and chain at Addington. Thete wore two previous convictions against him, and ha received a sentence of two years with hard labour. This was the last case on the list. The (fraud Jury threw out the 13til against Alex. Lenni, charged with larceny, as the prosoon tor did not appear. Lunb who was convicted early in the day for forgery was placed on probation for l'J months.