LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12001, 25 June 1902, Page 7

LAW AND POLICE.

•" ' SUPREME COURT-Tuesday. . IN CHAMBERS. 'A SITTING in chambers was held before His Honor Mr- Justice Conolly during the forejiv*" : noon. &Hlt j\ Probate: Probate was granted in the wills : ' of the following deceased persons:—James • McAndrew (Mr. Stewart), Charles La Roche (Mr. Gribbin), and Alfred Arthur Smith (Mr: in:'' 1 JJawton). ' gPV Letters of Administration: Letters of ad • " * ministration were granted in the estates of deceased persons as follows: Elizabeth Mary * , Dilly (Mr. Gribbin), John Milne (Mr. Gittos) pp, Sureties were dispensed with in both oases i Bf Proceeds ol Sale: Rating Act re allotment WW 16, parish of Te Puna. Summons for order k ! : , to pay over balance of proceeds of sale. Ms- i Clayton appeared in support, and an order was made as prayed. Appointment of Arbitrator: Arbitration 'Act re arbitration between Francis Gregory §Sp Whiting and William Cornelius Johns. Mov tion to appoint arbitrator. Mr. Mahony ap-pt-s peared in support, and Mr. Robert W. Keals fwas, by consent, appointed arbitrator . P '■ Divorce: Bancroft v. Bancroft. Motion for leave to serve writ and petition <? ;, out of colony. Mr, Colbeck appeared in sunport; H°nor granted leave, defence to ~ be filed within 80 days after service. ||- In Liquidation: Ko New Zealand Glass 0 Company Limited, in liquidation. Motion to settle list of contributeries. Mr. Tola apJ.r peared m support. The list was settled as - filed, except in the cases of those attached w; (to the otfioial assignee's affidavit. gg|| POLICE COURT NEWS. ''>V Mr. T. Hutchison, S.M., presided at the • Police Court yesterday, and Sub-Inspector 1 r « Mitchell conducted the police prosecutions , Drunkenness: A first-offending female ine- , briate was convicted and discharged. I '-'-Adjourned: Threo charges cf committing breaches of tin* Licensing Act, preferred i- against James Verrall, licensee of the Bricklayers Aims Hotel, were further adjourned . v till the 7th prox. . «■; Maintenance: Robert Henry Jackson was 9 ordered, by consent, to contribute the sum llUl'of 2s per week towards the support of his father. Percy Davies, carpenter's improver, was adjudged the father of an illegitimate child, and ordered to pay 5s per week towards its maintenance, and £5* expenses in'y: cidental to its birth. Mr. Martin appeared lil-' for defendant. \ • ; • A Serious' Charge: A respectably-dressed ( jnsn, named John McCrao, was charged with indecently assaulting at Auckland, on July - 31, 1901, a girl named Alice Scurrah. Mr. J. C. Martin appeared for the accused. SubInspector Mitchell, who conducted the prosefgi cution, said the accused was before the Court in July last-, on a charge of assaulting the ■3,, girl, but as the hearing of the case progressed -■•it transpired that the assault was of an in''ri,, decent nature, and the Magistrate dismissed the case in order that an information on the »ore serious charge might be laid against ; accused. At the termination of the case , ' accused left the Court, and his whereabouts had.been shrouded in mystery until the present time. Sarah Scurrah. a stylishlydressed young woman, was called, and said . - that on the date in question she was walking up Wellington-street, about half-past seven vpm., in company with her two sisters, when the accused came on to the sidewalk from a dairy, and behaved improperly towards I \ i her. Witness was pushed into the water , channel, and was seized with a fit of hysteria. It was a bright moonlight night, and witness had no doubt ,a« to the identity of the ac|'m cused with the man that assaulted her. Cor%r". roborative evidence was given by Lily and ; Vera, Scurrah and Mrs. Bassctt, the hearing *- lasting the greater part of the day. The ' ease was eventually adjourned till Friday, W&viri order that the attendance of another material witness might be secured. Accused was released in the meantime on his former bail.