SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.
(Pkb Omttsd Paean Abbociatton.l WELLINGTON, November 18. , In the Supreme Court to-day Robert Stockbridge, who w.as previously sentenced, received an additional six months for tho theft of carpenters' tools from various suburban premises. CHRISTCHURCH, November 18. The Supreme Court to-day awarded the widow of Albert John Henderson, a shunter, who was killed in a railway accident, £655 damages against the Railway Department. The court is engaged in hearing a claim by Andrew Fairbairn, merchant, for £1000 damages from the Sun ncwsijape-r for libel alleged to be contained in an article dealing with Mr Fairbairn's conduct in regard to the Cost of Living Commission in 1912. — King Alfonso has a curious tasto in collecting. In his private museum are grouped all the objects which have placed his life in danger, from a large glass vase which fell and nearly killed h : m when a child of five, to pieces of the bomb thrown at him in Barcelona, and a fragment of the landau in which he was seated with President Loubet when his assassination was attempted in the Rue de Rival'-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16545, 19 November 1915, Page 7
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183SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16545, 19 November 1915, Page 7
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