THE COURTS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12869, 22 September 1904, Page 2

THE COURTS.

[PBISB iiSOOUTION.] Al CKI.AXD, Wednesday. At the Magistrate’s Court, Xgaruawav Ilia, Arthur Brewer was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a regis£3l eunt)l ' n “'B a cheque for Wiremu te Whitu, alias Haddy Hogan, an alleged tohunga, was sen* tonced at Xgarnawahia to one month’s imprisonment for being an idle and diss orderly person without- visible means of support, execution to bo stayed on condition (bat be returned to his tribe, WEI.LIXGTOX, Wednesday. In the Hawke’s Hay case, Maurice I Mason, of Tabekc, v. Lucy Jane | Moore, of Kparaima, claim £SOO, i (l,l ‘ Supreme Court to-day gave judgment for the plaintiff, with costs. The parties were brother and sister. The chum arose out of a pule as to whether a sum of £6OO given to the defendant by her father prior to Ins death was a gift or merely an advance of part of the moneys commg to her after his decease. The court held that the plaintiff’s contention that the money was merely an adac«irdingly, tOrrCCt ’