SOUTHERN COURTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 4 August 1913, Page 7

SOUTHERN COURTS.

(Bt Tdpsraph.—Press Association. , ) ( HRLSTCHL"RCH. this day. in the Supreme Court thjs morning James Lampbell, who pleaded gniltv to a charce. of false pretence*, was ordered to come up for sentence \s-hcn called on. tiward Noil Whitton. aged If), pleaded guilty to lUnft and brrjiking and entering, anil was sent bar-k u> riumham lndtiitria] School. -Joseph Cowan, wlio admitted having eta-btel Walter Uanks with a knife at Greymonth on July 2. plearie.i drimk<=nnes=. and was sentenced t<i two year-' iro.prisorLmp.nt. Thomas Wood admitted a charjrr of breakinjr and entering m limani, and wa> sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. WELLINGTON SUPREME COl'IlT. WTOULINGTOX. this day. Thr supreme Court criminal -es.-ions opened Lotorc his Honor Mr. Justice thspman 10-ilay. there beintr twenty charges .-i-veutccn person.-, including -even ( harjres of theft apuhist Perry Alfred Kabian. His Horidr. in his char;e to the gTand jury, >;ml tno case= were nil ordinary, and did not indicate the presence in any niHrke-l degree of crime, although he *as sorry to say there were three «arges of indecency on the list.