SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

J THE CRIMINAL CAXIENDAR. i AiTIVK IURdLARY ALLKOEU A i,.r:nid.i.,:- -;:in_- of charj»o« wje "liriiUtiiil a pri.uuer named Arthur ,Jl:i'nilton. uiin .ils.i apparently at «diuilim- or iiilii-r hud gone under about 'hrill a >>..•■/< ii ..I'.-.-,•-. among others Dij'm . .■-:>,•. I'owe'.l. and Murphy. >le w.i-. with honsobreakinj. 'lii.-lt. rii-t-ivina -tolen <rood>. and witli 'hii\in;i li,M!-e)nr.ikiii_' implement-, "i-'.it!----jllut re|,|-e-rnt>-d by L-ounsel, and In; j pleaded m>: jruilty "to all charges. |' The i ronii r-nis.-.-iitiir fllon. .1. A. I Tut.-. K.I .i explained to the jury tii.it there were Muenteen riiarrc? in ..II airain-t the pri-i-ner. iiu-luililij ei-'lit i'!ur;r- lit iuir.'i.iry. three n! houseiireakilii- ar-iivities liad extended nvi r a period from duly r,f la-t year until April of thl\ear. lv .liil\ uf last joar •> numbi-r of Chinamen's I -e> in and alwtn the i-ity were ran-a. -ked duiin- the alisetlee of ■ tiieir owner- in the daytime. In Ortoher about Cl'-'"> uorth o: jew.-llrr.v was stolen from tin- -hop "I i Mr. Stran-iln-rs. « .-e.-.>iidii.iud denier. w!,,-e safe luid licou blown open. In several in-'.-.tjliees the breaking and '-nwrinj; had. ; lie,-u attended in- llio blowinj! open of I the safe.-. When prisoner was arrested iin April la-t nun h of the property which 'had been report.-l mi-.-i.ii.' wa- found in Ibis pos.-i--iuii. Jle Imd admitted at, least that lie wa.- ill posse-niiin nf wimo proIpprty which lie knew wa« -i.ileu |imjperty. Whea hi. liox.-- -'~-re i.eiir.' span.lieil by the police lie had warned them of the pre-eiiee of ill one. ; l-'u.-e of the kind found in his possession μ-otihl not he obtained anywhere in Au.-k----iland. an.l ua- similar to the pier-es found latter the tmrplary at StranberjV. A con-'-ider.ible nuniher of fkeieton key- and . hoiLaebrPakini: tools had also been louti'l Jin the prisoner , * possession.

A FIRE AND ITS RESULT. INSCRAXCK CLAIM F.EFITKU. Mi- Uonnr Mr Justice Cooper heard tin' .-nit brought by Xickle ttros., fiirmeivi near Cambridge, again-t the Liverpool and l-omlon aud Glebe Insiirlanee Co.. f»r the n-'-ovcry of AI4OO iti-j-iiniu.p money. ! Mr A. M. tlnulrl appeared for i Uaa-.'. William, ii'.ut Kdwin Niokle irarryjiii X ~;, lm-ine.- «s Xkkle Uros.i. an I I .Mr I-:. Ma ; iony appeared for the ln«ur- ] The plaintiff*, it wa« explained, were 'owner- »l 1"- arc- at Pukckura. Waipii, and• v detached building at their farm. ! nc.-.ipir.l liy t!io Pukekura Training iSr'iool,' , «a# by tiro on Deeenv jbor S\. I'.M-J. Th." hn-'ldmg hail Uo,-i, i in.-iiri-d ill t":ic ileieudant I nlfit-D fnr C4OH. Thi- plaintiffs statd Ithat their 10-vi h?.d bwn £3.150 an:l lipw.ird-. oii.l i-laimi-d t!-.;:t tl\ey had fulj tilled all Uie conditions of thr- :n-iir-laiiiv polity, and «ere entitled to roc-oive the ruiii i)i C4(MI ir'-'.m the company. j Thr dei'i'ini' -<-t up by the insaran — I nmnaiiv I'.micd that the condition n: the poli.-y a- t.i the jiving of imtirp had j 1....-M .-•mi-liej witli by tho plaintilis. jT'ie inin;iaiiy [iirtlier stated that. c\e:i lit tin . Court rnleil that the term* >>' r t\\o jinlii'V iin t . the ftLving of nntiee jlial lift-n i-umplicil with, the <!a.ini wns i ipje.'t«'d by tin , ( nnipanr on -hino 7, I ] it 1 :{. and as no a.-tion \va= coniineneed I within threi' ni'Mith" of ?ueh r-jection. jail bpnetlit uniler tin; policy »a< for- ; IX-riSAVCK (I.AI.Nf REFI'TKT). 1 Formal i-rilHif fur the <!aini .'.. - -; Xi-\illi. ' Ni>w:-om!H>. Thf iHlter -tale.i thai in a.T(- til" tli" property ami t!ic li.i-l lii-i-n put into'hin liainU ;.ir -:t\r at L'o-iin. With {'■.<■ lan i I valued .'t L-."i an ikiv. thai tneanl tliat Til , .' .'. 'i ii |irii;ti-rt\ iiad been ■'V c:i.n7.*i, vvli::-!i u:i.v a u-ondi>ri'nl I'.nr- : p.ihi. II- .-: : !. i..- I t> laliie ~; r'iliiii;,i::i::. a. bi-t'.vpi-;] LJ.-">IXI :i :i.l v- it'll. I; v.a- ini-ntiimrd in pvideniv. tiiat Hi" l>uil.!;ua-i h< rr covered by i■. , pollenw for 'J].. _ )(i(i a n 4 L'.".iKi. ni?;i,> jliveiy. in Ihe Stanciard ortit-e. and mi' nlbcr pnlit-y in;- C4HO j u the l/\ •■-. ••! Illli'l 1.-.l !'IM ;:;,:! Ciulip oflic. il'ra.erdinj.l