LAW AND POLICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12000, 24 June 1902, Page 7

LAW AND POLICE

SUPREME COURT—Monday. CRIMINAL. yiSTSBDAt forenoon His Honor Mr. Justice Oonolly dealt with two prisoners who had pleaded guilty to offences in the lower Court * and came up for sentence. Breach of the Probation Act: Bernard tAnderson, admitted to probation for six '; jnonths for the theft at Gisborne of £47 1 (amount subsequently returned), pleaded I guilty to a breach of the Probation Act by failing to report regularly to the police and leaving the district be was licensed to live in and stated that he was under the impression that it was on 'y necessary to report at the :expiration of the term of probation, six months. Afte, hearing the evidence of Sergeant SiddelL, of Gisborne, concerning the breach, His Hono. extended probation for a I further term of six months on the condition that prisoner paid £2 a. month towards the cost of the original prosecution. Horse-stealing: A native named Georgo f King. who pleaded guilty in the lower Court to the theft at Hawera of a horse, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. IX BANKRUPTCY. , Waltei Francis Swift (storekeeper, of Birkenhead), a bankrupt, appeared before the Court for public examination as to his affairs •The Hon. J. A. Tolc, Crown Prosecutor, appeared for the official assignee, and Mr. J. R .Jteed represented the bankrupt. After being submitted" to a lengthy examination, His Honor announced that the case had been suffioientlj investigated, and an order was made to that effect.