NOTES FROM WANGANUI. SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 3

NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

IBr .TeleEtaßh.-Sneoial: Correapondentj •" •• . ■ . v., ..•; Wangaiiiii, ,March 8." Dr. Porritt is -steadily recovering! from his recent.accident caused by:.iis • motor.' collidiug,.with a train.' , --■• .' ,: ■ U>short sitting; of ' ; the.Arbitration- Court was' l held,.tb-day; but-no-business of importanoe'was;:done.' .:•-.. ,■■•.'■■ iEabbits continue in evidence'' in the upper Wangaehu district.' Yesterday the stipendiary: 'magistrate -fined a- settler., -JEW.-, (costs £o 10s.) ' for failing; to | -take steps to 'destroy, rab-bite';.,on>,,-his property, after, a warning from .the' Stock Department, to do'so. -.■'•.• : . i T hc"tranJsV'ay ! takings' for the first week in: March, jinclnding- two race: days, was £2{S, an- increase of .£3sover the cor- : responding! week - ofViast' year, which also, included:, the: races.' ■

.'/ : ;lß>'!Tiegrai>h.-Pre«« Association.) ~. ".' '■'.'. 1 ■ New Plymouth, March 9. Ik-the'Supreme Court to-day, John M'Garthyji alias M'A'rthu'r, a blind man,wastfmind. guilty, of "assault and" of causing bodity harm to, Bridget Campbell.' ;Ho had o long list of previous' convic'tion's;'and was sentenced to one year's .impi'isonnient.. The civil'case'.Muir v. J ones; wai settled out of court. •