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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 243, 19 October 1870, Page 2

THE REPEIEVE OP SUPPLE. Yesterday there was a very lengthy sitting of the Executive Council, and the only matter under consideration was the case of Supple.; Din-inc the day. Mr. Clayton, Supplo's solicitor, was notified that no petition from the prisoner had been handed in, and that until this was done no action could be taken by the Executive. In consequence of this intimation, Mr. Clayton at once forwarded a petition on behalf of the prisoner. During the meeting of the Executive some twenty petitions were' handed in, and after some hours' deliberation, the decision was arrived at by the Government that Supple should be re-: prieved, in order that time he afforded for the consideration by her Majesty of his petition,1 and that certain»oints of law in his cape may be submitted to the Judicial Committee of. the Privy Council. The determination of the' Executive was conveyed.to Supple last evening, by Mr. Ellis, the acting sheriff, and Mr.' Castieau, governor of the gaol. The prisoner; said that he felt much gratification with the: repi-ieve, because of the joy it would give his' sisters. He will now be removed from the; condemned cell, his irons will be struck off,} and he will be treated in the same way as convicted prisoners are in whose favor a law point has been reserved.—Melbourne Age, Oct. 8.

; POLICE COURT.— Wednesday. . y (Before Joseph' May and G. M. Mitfofd, EfJjjgJ "":* - Justices.)

Dbunkenitess.—Mark McGinnan, for a firsE'' offence, was fined 5s and costs, or to be imprisoned 24 hours with hard labour.— Joseph Osborne, for a tbird offence, was fined 20s, and-to.be imprisoned seven days.t—James Heaton, against whom a long list of convictions had been previously registered, was fined 20s and costs, or to hi imprisoned 48 hours ■with hard labour.

Laeoenv.—The charge against Michael Burns, for stealing a hat, comforter, and overcoat, value £3, was, in the absence of a material witness, adjourned till Monday.— William Giindry was charged with stealing from Martha Lamb certain moneys, on the evening of the 18th October.—Mr3. Lamb, deposed :We reside in West Queen-street. OnTuesday evening prisoner came to my house and said he had no money and did not know where to get lodgings. 1 told him to come inside and I -would give him a bed. He helped to put my husband to bed. On looking round I observed the pocket of my dress turned inside out, and prisoner had unlocked the doors and gone out. Missed my purse from my pocket, which had contain- d six £1 notes, two sovereigns, a cheque for a pound on the Bank of Australasia, and 17s6din silver. The two notes now produced are like those stolen. The threepenny piece I identify as stolen from me on that occasion. —Witness wa3 crossexamined at considerable length by prisoner.—

(Left sitting.)