WESTPORT SUPREME COURT.
GOOD PROGRESS WITH BUSINESS.
BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WESTPORT, This Day. At- the Supreme Court, the grand jury returned no bill in Rex v. Markland, a charge of attempting to commit a criminal offence. In the divorce case of Kelly v. Kelly, wife’s petition, a decree nisi was granted. The mining appeal Standard v. Thimbleby was dismissed and the decision of the warden upheld in declaring Stannard owner of a fourth share in a mining claim. The deputy official assignee (on behalf of R. F. Mullan) moved a motion to declare W. G. Brosnahan bankrupt. He was the owner of a chemist’s business in the name of Thomas Brosnahan. The motion was adjourned till next jourt.
Two bankrupts were next examined and several discharges granted. The appeal is now proceeding of police v. Ryan. This is a case in which the magistrate dismissed an information charging him with .. selling liquor on Monday 26th December, which the police contended should be observed by hotelkeepers as Christmas Day.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1911, Page 5
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