AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9304, 21 March 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL ABUSES A JUDGE.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.!

SYDNEY, March 20.

John Williams, a man with a remarkable criminal record, having spent most of his life in prison, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for house-break-ing. He abused the Judge in the vilest language, and expressed the hope that when he had finished his sentence he wjbuld have the pleasure of dining on the Judge's grave.

'lENNIS CHAMPIONSHD? MEETING.

SYDNEY, March 20.

Parker maintained top form at the opening of th& match for the championship of New South Wiales, beating Kidstone three sets straight.