SUPREME COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10766, 15 May 1911, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

(Per Press Association.)

Dunedin, May 15. The'criminal sittings opened to-day. Arthur Robert James Cant pleaded guilty to theft of £lO9 from the Union Steamship Company, with whom he was employed as paymaster of the casual hands at Port Chalmers. It was stated, that he married when he was -not financially able to do so, and borrowed at usurious interest to.pay for furniture. He. took the Company's moneys to pay his private debts. Accused" was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to pay costs, £B.

Colin David M'Lean pleaded guilty, to two charges of theft from the D.1..C. and Mrs Dreaver's drapery establishment, and was ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for a term of two years. John Aloysius Campbell was brought up for sentence on three charges of theft from the Bank of Australasian Prisoner, who had been addicted to gambling and" horse-racing, was in receipt of a salary of £2OO a year from the bank. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. John Roy Belfqrd, on a charge of receiving stolen property at Dunedin, was admitted to probation for two years. John Taupoki, a Maori, for breaking and entering and theft at Biverton, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor; thereafter to be detained for 1 reformative, purposes' for threo years.