SUPREME COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10601, 9 March 1895, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

IN CHAMBERS. Pm day, March 8, (Before his Honor Mr Jos lice Denniston) BALFOUR V. HARPER. This was an application for a return to a summons of March 2. On the application of Mr Cowlishaw his Honor made an order in lieu of tho summons. WILLIAMS V. DOMEBAIN. Mr Hall obtained an order herein for the appointment of a guardian ail litem. BE LAND TRANSFER ACT AND BE CAVEAT 1565. This was a motion for a return to a summons of March 3. Mr Beswicfc appeared in support of the summons. Mr Cowlishaw said he wished for an adjournment. Hia Honor fixed Friday, March 22, for the hearing. PROBATES, Probates were granted of the wills of Jane Pater (Mr Stringer) and "William Bonnet (Mr Helmore). MOUNT ECTT ROAD BOAED V. DENT. On the application of Mr Boswiclr, his Honor made an order for the examination of a witness before trial. [Per Press Association.! WANGANUI, March 8. At the Supremo Court to-day, before Judge Richmond, after a hearing extending over eleven days, the jury returned a verdict in the case Grant v. the Manawatu Road Board, claim £I2OO for alleged damage to property by drainage. Tbs jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £SO, on two counts of £45 and £5 respectively. The question of; costs and the entering of the judgment were reserved. WELLINGTON, March 8. la the Supreme Court W. A. Noon, an old man, who pleaded guilty to forgery, was sentenced to four months’ hard labour, the Rev Grace, of Greytown having promised to look after him on his release from prison. Jeremiah Crawley, Jeremiah Kelly, Robert Mountain, George Todd and John Callaghan, mostly firemen on the steamship Kaikoura, were convicted of a serious assault on W, J. Harris, quarter-master. Crawley, who used a bottle, got eighteen months. Mountain twelve months, Kelly nine months, and the others six months each.