SUPREME COURT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 282, 2 June 1909, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] INVERCAHGiLL," last night. Tlic June sitting of the, Suprom : Court opened to-day before Air Jus ).. ti.-o "Williams. There was'only on cTimiiial case, in wliich a ce.nntry la 1 j iiiimi'd Kdward William Puller, abou 17 years, pleaded guilty tti two- h dictme.nts"qf indecently assaultin ".• two girls Under nine years of a^e. . His Honor stated that there .wer 1- mitigating circumstances, biit th class of oft'enr-e was too common a present to refcfive lenient trcatmeni He ordered the hoy to receive te "j lashes and three months' imprison ment.In the-1 .reach of promise case, EJoi 0 ence Ethel-Kelly, v. Robert Ross, i y which £250 damages .was claimed there was no defence, and £75 wer awarded. •■ The only other case heard was th appeal of. Martin Metzger,. agaius his conviction by the "magistrate fo • having driven a. motor car througl Riverton at greater speed than al lowed by bye-law. It was contend ed for appellant, that the by-law wa: bad in that it was not made in accor 1 dance with the Motor Regulation Act j which provides for publication of th< by-law in the local papers, and tin _ erection of sign posts stating tht speed in' the streets. The conviction was quashed on. the grounds that the bye-law was bad. . , r : ' .