SUPREME COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11751, 1 December 1898, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

[Per Press Association.] BLENHEIM, Nov. 30. At the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Denniston, Henry Williams, alias George Withers, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for forging a cheque for £7 4s. The civil sitting has opened. Thomas Ball, hairdresser, sued Frederick Barnes, farmer, his brother-in-law, for £l2O for slander in accusing him, before bis wife, of breaking into a bouse and stealing money belonging to the defendant’s sister. The defence was that the statement was in the nature of a well-meant warning. A verdict for plaintiff for one farthing damages was returned. The case of C. H. Mills, M.H.R., v. Rogers and Sinclair, solicitors, a claim for £l5O refund of money received from the “ Otago Daily Times ” in satisfaction of a verdict in a recent libel case, and an alternative claim of £250 for negligence in advice as to a certain agreement in connection with the same case, is proceeding. DUNEDIN, Nov. 50. The charge of arson at Gore against Ernest William Robson and Thomas Baldwin is being proceeded with to-day, and is likely to occupy the rest of the week. This is the last case on the criminal calendar.