SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17089, 22 August 1917, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

PRISONER FOR SENTENCE. His Honor Mr Justice Sim had brought before him for sentence yesterday a prisoner named Arthur Francis M'Farlane, who had pleaded guilty to . having broken and entered a dwelling house, and stolen therefrom.

Mr W. O. MacGregor, K.C., Crown Prosecutor, stated that the Rev. Mr Axelsen knew tho young man, but had seen very little of him during the last two years. So long as he had been under Mr Axelsen's control the latter had believed him to be all right, but when away from that control ho drank, and was difficult to deal with. His Honor remarked that the police gavo M'Farlano a bad character. He had been previously convicted of theft. He would bo detained for reformative treatment for a term of not more than five years. DIVORCE. 6arah Annie Mangan petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Thomas Francis Mangan, on the ground of desertion. Mr S. Solomon, K.C., and Mr Payne, appeared for petitioner. The former stated that the parties to the suit were married in 1904, and had subsequently lived in various parts of the North Island. They eventually left Auckland for Wyndham. Mangan was an incorrigible drunkard, and repeatedly knocked his wife about. Petitioner had to give up her home at different times and go out to work. Matters culminated at Wyndham in "910, when respondent returned home one night with a drunken companion, struck his wife, and turned her out of the house. She then came to her people in Dunedin, and from that day to the present time she had to earn her own living. Sho did not kiow what had become of respondent. Thero were no children of the marriage. Evidence having been given, has Honor granted a decree nisi, with leave to make it absolute at the end of three months. EST CHAMBERS. Probate of the wills of the following persons was granted:—Oeorgo Cumming, Alexander Armstrong, Oscar Edward Oederman, and Josephine Gertrude Thomson. '■ \ Letters of administration were granted in re. Jessie Dalgleish Diet, and David Telf er. In ro Harry Archibald de Lautour, deceased.—Motion for liberty to prove will in Dunedin.—Accordingly.