SUPREME COURT

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1911, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

(Per Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept : 20. - At the Supreme Cou:it to-day a young" man named' James Percy Wilkinson pleaded guilty to the theft of a bicycle and forgery at Eltham and was sentenced to s : -x . months' hard i labour and to a reformative -treatment term not exceeding three, years. William Renata, a-. Maori, pleaded guilty to the theft of a checue and forg-ed endorsement at -Raetihi. He was sentenced to six months hard labour and detained for Tteformative treatment not exceeding thuee, years. George Henry dairy, a young man, came forward fo* trial on a charge of carnal knowledge with a girl under sixteen years. He pleaded guilty., putting in a written statement that . he believed the girl to be over age, and since had be.en- married to her. He was ordered to conic up far 'Scntejice when called upon. Nicholas Albert Madden, charged with wilfully setting fire *o a dwelling- near Eltham last January, was acquitted. In the d'-yo>rca Wilkinson v. Wilkinson, husband's petition for adultery, a decrirte nisi was granted, to bd made absolute in three months ' . ; Tho criminal sessions are finished , but there as a heavy list of civil cases. . • ■ - '