SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8963, 29 November 1894, Page 5

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

(P&CU ASSOCIATION THLMRAMS.) \\ AUCKLAND, November 23. S\\ This afternoon at the Supreme Mr O'&ieagher asked permission to men- \\ tion the Rotorua perjury cases set down ] for hearing to-morrow. Ha had been instructed to appear, and asked that the cases should be adjourned for a few days, owing to the absence of Mr Humphroys, who was a material witness. His Honour said he did not see how Mr O'Meagher could prove the perjury in the absence of . Mr Humphreys. Mr Chas. Purchase, who was present on behalf of the three accused, Richard Shiels, Bessie Scott, and Emma. Matuha, said he could not consent Ho any adjournment. Hβ was prepared with all his witnesses to go on to-morrow. His Honour remarked he did not know how the grand jury found the bills iv the absence of Humphreys. He would adjourn the matter until to-morrow morning. Hfs Honour, subsequently instructed the Grown Prose*" / cutor to be prepared with otner cases for to-morrow morning. / WELLINGTON, November 2£ The criminal sessions finished to-day with the trial of E. Bennett and J. Tuthill lor ■ breaking into a warehouse and stealing nineteen boxes of cigarettes. Tuthill was acquitted and Bennett convicted of receiving the goods, knowing them to be stolen. - He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment.