SUPREME COURT.

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SUPREME COURT.

iPBESS ASSOCIATION.") WELLINGTON, February 17. Arthur Law, who was charged at the Supreme Court wi*h having kept tasDi office for betting purposes, wae acquibted. Sydney George Ingram, an employee of Te Aro House, a city drapery establishment, pleaded not guilty to having aidedi and abetted A. W. Purvis, late secretory of the Wellington Benevolent Institution, in frauds, which Purvis; perpetrated on/ the trustees of that body, for which he is now serving a. -barm of imprisonment. Tttiß OSSe for the Grown was .that Ingram, at the request of Purvis, made, out bogus invoices against the trustees, in which items which stood charged to Puirvds' private accouaut ■were transferred as charges against the trustees, anid paid for by them. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, after half an hour's retirement.