Supreme Court.
THE DUNEDIN SESSIONS.
!By Telegraph, i
Duxedis, This day
The criminal sitting of the Supreme Court opened this forenoon. -Judge Pennefatber, addressing the Grand Jury, said: "I regret to inform you that the calendar, though shorter than in other towns of the same size as Punedin, is a larger one than there has been on any previous occasion during the past year. It would seem that the wave of crime against morality, which is apparently passing over the country, has left this district untouched, and it is a matter for serious consideration whether it is evidence of a general deteriorating of character against the community, or whether it merely is that attention has lately been drawn to an evil which has long been lurking in our milst. In all offences, and especuiiiy in ■ of ibis kind, the difficulty a.~ '<-> the right form of puni-tniar ,l c. <-< - f juvenile offenders, and I aic ooirv to have to add that it is a probleiu w inch is still unsolved." * ->*«■* Mnith, for failing toe;!,;"./ - -emis of his probation. ■"..w-'tv; to six months* unpri-.<.u original charge of theft.
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Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 861, 6 March 1899, Page 3
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186Supreme Court. Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 861, 6 March 1899, Page 3
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