SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15856, 30 August 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

(l'sn United Press Association,) WELLINGTON, August 29. 11l the Supreme Court to-day decrees nisi were granted in twc/ adjourned divorco eases'-; Samuel Champion v. Mary Jane Champion and Ernest Simonson. (oorespondent) on the ground of misconduct, a.nd \V. Beaumont Mapplebeck v. Sarah 'Ann Mappleback, also misconduct. The petitioner in the latter case came out to New Zealand some- years ago from Leicester, tho arrangement being -that his wife was to follow later. She did not do 60. Some time afterwards Albert George Cames and' his wife camo out from Leicester nt.d gave petitioner information about Ins "Wife which.lf d to the petition, being i>l>))!ii-d (or. A case in which Alice May Dollcy petitioned \for divorce against William Nicholas Doiley.on the grounds of dc-str-tion and misconduct was heard to-day, and. a decree nm was granted.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 29. Walter Medley Hulston, found guilty of receiving stolen good 6, was to-day sentenced to two years' reformative '• treatment. Mr Justice Denniston-commented in strong terms on the fact that Hulston at the age of 15 had been placed in charge of a barber's shop which had become the resort of thiaves.