OAMARU CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1973, 12 September 1889, Page 9

OAMARU CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Oamaku, September 10.

The Supreme Court Criminal Sessions opened and closed to-day before Mr Justice Williams. Ther« were nine, charges against Michael Morgan riiid J<imcs Anderson f<>r house-breaking and larceny. On one of these the accused were convictud after trial, and they theo pleaded guilty ou two other*, and the Crown prosecutor entered a nolle prosequi in the remainder. Antiersrm was seotei c :d to sevi-.n years' and Morgan to nveye.ars' imprisoument. Thomas Oooper pleaded guilty to forger} , and was placed unc'tr probn. tion fir a yv»v. Ah Gonu, a Chinese, for house* breaking, was hontencfd to nine months' smnrinoninfut;, ari-1 Thomas Rooney got two years' imprisonment for forgery.

Th". Evening Pos>t has received a Writ from Mr Charles Bowie*, of Carterton, claiming £1000 damages for alleged libel contained in one

of the jffi'lavitf. forwarded by Mr Jellicoe to the Governor in re Obnmis, stating that he (Bpwles) had b'-'orl sfc'iins upon hit trousers which could not h' ve been nauped by killing sheep. In a !'>tterto the Auckland Reception Committee Mr Dillon says —"The wonderful success of the infesinn of delegates iv these colonies has made it neces.-ary that they should give a great deal more timft to tbft work than they tmtl calculated on, and Mr Dillon, who will be unable to reach the coloDy before November, cannot state whether his two colleagaea will accompany him."

Ke other medicine has vron for itself such universal confidence as Aver's SarsapariHa. It is the most powerful combination ot vegetablu alterativesjever

offered to the public, and is acknowledge! to be the best blood-purifier.