SUPREME COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

LIST OF CASES

i The periodical sessions of • the ; Supreme Court will be opened at Blen- , heim on Friday morning. The fol- ; lowing cases are set down for hear- ! ing:— CRIMINAL. Rex v. John Vernon Binley and Edmund John Walsh', conspiracy to ; defraud bookmakers by tampering with telegrams in connection with the Wanganui race meeting. Res v. J. ■ V. Binley, attempted false pretences. : Rex v. E. J. Walsh, attempted false J : pretences. R«x v. J. V. Binley, ob- | i taining money under false pretences. j These cases were proceeded with ati the last sitting of the Supreme Court jin Blenheim, but were interrupted,. j and ordered by Mr Justice Chapman to stand over till the next sessions, the common jury being discharged on account of a visit paid to the police cells by the foreman. CIVIL. Thomas Jeffries v. Arthur Wiffen, a claim for the return of 1080 sacks of barley valued at £995, the defendant becoming bankrupt after receiving the grain. This and the next mentioned case were partly gone into at the last sessions, when an order was made that the Official Assignee and Murray, Roberts and Co. be joined with the defendant. G. N. M. Fairhall and others v. Arthur Wiffen, claim for the return of 458 sacks of barley valued at £450. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., v. Athol Ernest Foster, of Nelson, and Annie Clunies Ross, of Grovetown, a claim for £177 with £14 15s interest on a dishonored promissory note, made by Foster and endorsed by the other defendant, payable, to B. Garnham and endorsed by him to the plaintiff. Robert Allan, of Nelson, v. E. A, Nosworthy, of Blenheim, application that an alleged lease of a shop property in Alfred Street for six years, purported to have been executed on September Ist, 1911, be decreed to be null and void. DIVORCE. Te Niko Mauritu, MacDonaH, petitioner,v. Tuiti Mac Donald, respondent, and Karaitaina. Makarika, corespondent, application for divorce/ IN BANKRUPTCY. Application. by William Alfred- Sowman for discharge. : - :