SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8598, 27 September 1893, Page 3

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) NAPIER, September 26; la the Supreme Court, Mr W. L. Reea •mod the Evening News Company foi , £70, which included £50 alleged to be a loan advanced to keep the paper alive when the Company was practically insolvent. The Company alleged that the money was a gift, not a loan, and disputed the other items of the claim. The Chief Justice upheld tbe contention of the Company except in one item of £6 sa, for which he gave judgment without coata. The Chief Justice also heard an appeal in a case of some importance. Captain Baxter, of the β-s. Result, waa convicted by the Resident Magistrate and fined for having in his possession flounders under the legal size. Counsel appealed on the ground that as they were taken beyond the three-mile limit, they could not bo returned to the water alive, as they were dead when the trawl was hauled up. Hie Honour re* served his decision.

INVERCARGILL, September 26. The Supreme Court opened to-day before Mr Justice "Williams. There were only four criminal cases, none of them serious. The Grand Jury brought in no bill in the case of James Tullock charged with stealing £30 belonging to his mother. Henry XJpsdale pleaded guilty tq attempted suicide in Lake Wakatipu, and wft» bound over in hi* own recognisance of £25 to come up for sentence when called upon.. David McKay, sixteen years old, pleaded guilty to firing a straw stack, valued at £3, and was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment!, and ordered to be sent to the Industrial School till he U twenty-one years of age, David Maitland, fifteen years of age, was found guilty of indecent assault on a girl at Chatton, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour and twenty-five strokes of a birch rod.