SUPREME COURT STATISTICS
♦ — _ _ PAST QUARTER'S WORK. The return of business transacted at ' the Wellington Supreme Court during the quarter ended on 31st March contains the following figures :-»- _ Criminal cases ; sitting days, 19 ; indictments, 35 ; persons convicted, 39 : persons acquitted, 7 ; persons committed J'or sentence. 26 ; persons declared habituni criminals, 2. Civil cases : Sitting days, 25 ; writs issued, 23 ', trials by common jury, 2 ; trials by Judge, 18; judgments entered, Compensation cases : Sitting days, 2 ; claims, 1 ; awards, 1. Chambers : Sitting days, 70 ; motions, 314 ,' summons, 57 ; petitions, 33 ; orders, 368. Banco : Sitting days, 13 ; motions, 13 ; hearings, 8; ruJes and orders, 7; appeals from inferior courts, 3 ; special cases, 3. Divorce and matrimonial causes : Sitting days, 1-2 ; petitions filed, 18 ; answers filed, 23 ; motions in chambers, 19 ; orders, 16 ; trials by common jury, 1; trials by Judge, 7; decrees nisi, 14; -decrees absolute. 13. ( Probateand ad ministration i Probates, ''148 ; administrations, 198. Lunacy : Petitions, 9 ; motions, 8 ; orders, 8. Bankruptcy'; Sitting days,_ 3 ; debtors' petitions, 1 ; creditors' petitions, 1 ; adjudications, 2 ; discharges, 1 ; orders. 1. The fees collected amounted to £5695
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 8
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181SUPREME COURT STATISTICS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 8
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