LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11689, 26 June 1901, Page 7

LAW AND POLICE.

SUPREME COURT.-]!"* Chamber His Honor Mb. Justice Conollt held a Pitting in chambers, at tho Supreme Court yesterday. Probate: Probate was granted of the wills of the following deceased persons-— Sullivan (Mr. Campbell), Archibald Stewart (Mr. McGregor), and Catherine Margaret Cucksey (Mr. Mahony). Letters of Administration: Letters of administration were granted in re the estates of Margaret Stewart, deceased (Mr. McGregor) and Peter Mackie, deceased Removal of Trustee: An order was granted for the removal of a trustee in the estate of James 0. Sharland (deceased), Mr. Brookfield for the plaintiff. Prceco's Point Proprietary (Hauraki), Limited: Petition to wind up the company (Mr. McGregor). Ordered to stand over to first sitting lr, chambers after the Court of Appeal. Admission m a Barrister: On the application of Mr. Mahony, Noel Lillio Holm Biss was admitted and enrolled as a barrister. Brown v. Brown: Motion for leave to serve station -n divorce out of the colony (Mr. rianoa . Leave granted, appearance to be entc-ed within 63 days after service. William Arrowsmith's (deceased) Estate: His Hot.or made- an order, on the application of Mr. Mahony. for the amount of the estate of William Arrow-smith, Into of Waiuku, to be paid to the General Trust Board of the diocese of Auckland; costs to be paid by the Hoard. The petitioners (Walter James Hill and Charles Fred. Griffiths) were the trustees of the estate. The will provided, amongst other bequests, for the payment of £500 to the St. Miry's Orphanage Ponsonby, £500 to the Helping Hand Mission. lreemau-s Bay, £1000 to the Auckland Benevolent Society, am! all the remainder (some £:.0,0:.0) to the Women's Home, Parnell, and the ( Irphans' Home. Parnell. to be divided, equally between them The fiction was in respect of the share due to the Women s Home, Parnell.

POLICE COURT NEWS. % Mr. H. W. Brabant, S.M., waa the presiilmg magistrate at the Police Court yesterday. Drunkenness: A first offender was convicted ami rlisclmrtretl, and an old age pensioner named Maria Armstrong alias Price, was remanded (ill tho 2nd prow for sentence. John Koan was fined 20s. or in default seven days," imprisonment, for this offence. Insulting Language: John Keen, convicted of drunkenness, was also fined 20s, or in default a week's hard labour, for using insulting language in a public place towards Walter Harrison. False Pretences: Arthur McLean, charged with obtaining the sum of 10:5 from Daniel Drummond by means of representing that a farthing coin was a half-sovereign, was brought up for sentence. Mr. Lundon appeared for the accused, and called an additional witness to corroborate a statement made at the hearing by the accused. A sentence of one month's hard labour was imposed, His Worship taking into consideration that the accused had been a cripple since childhood. Remanded: A lad named John .Saunders was, remanded to appear at Paeroa on the 2nd prox. on a charge of stealing, a! Komata, tho sum of £12, the property of one .'. Parkinson. Charles Henry Barton Foster was remanded till the same date on a f-earge of failing to a-, count to George Me£ride for the sum of £5 10s received from .Patrick Lynch in terms requiring him to pay the same to George Meßride ' Maintenance: William Brown was ordered to contribute the sum of £5 per month towards the simp -rt of bis five children. By-laws: George Wright was Sued 10s unci costs is for driving round a street corner at other than a walking pace ; and Ernest Hutchison was mulcted in a like penaltv for driving- a vehicle by nic;ht without having sufficient lights attached thereto Breach of Shop Assistants Act: Annie Jane Casselb pleaded not guilty to a chareo Of keeping her shoo open for the sale of foods on the appointed half-holiday on Abu- 1 la-.. Mr. Ferguson (inspector of factories) prosecuted, and Mr. McVeagh appeared for the defence, which was that the defendant's shop was not such within the meaning of the Act. A fine of 10s and costs 21s was imposed after evidence had been taken.