WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7382, 4 June 1895, Page 3

WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

[PEB PBKSS ASSOCIATION ]

WEmrN&TOi!, This day,

At the Supreme Court, John Pearson, 18 years, for thoft at Palmeraton North, was admitted to probation for six months. The young man Roderick MoKenzie reoelved twelve months'"hard labor for btealing a coat at Masterton. MoKenzie escaped from the prison gang at Fort Halswell ia January last, and while at large in the Wairerapa district committed tha ofiwnce. An elderly man named Patrick O'Donnell, with previous convictions ag&insb him at Greymouth and Ohristohuroh, waa sentenced to six months' hard labor for false pretences. C. A. Sutherland, 24 veaw of age, who had been acting as canvasser for a local firm of piinteri, received six months for false pretences The Chief Justice held that tho prisoner was too old to obtain the benefits of tho Probation dot; and besides, his late employers did not give him a good character. Frederick Maryatt, on a chirge of theft of jewellery from the Masonic Hotel, was remanded for sentenoe. The prisoner, who is respectably connected at Christohurch, applied to be placed under the Probation Aot.