GRAND JURIES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2370, 29 May 1906, Page 2

GRAND JURIES.

PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, May 27. At the conclusion of a charge of robbery at the Supreme Court, in which the jury, without retiring, returned a verdict of not guilty, Mr Justice Edwards said:—“ll the grand jcry had taken my advice and thrown cut die bill, it would have saved the Court a good deal of time and the country a considerable amount of expense. 1 Mr. Tole (Crown Proxectitcr): “I think it is time the grand jury wis abolished.’’ Auckland, May 27

A report upon the proposed regulations regarding the inspection ol the city milk supply was submitted to a meeting of the City Council). It states: ''On the point of milk supplv, it was mentioned that much cl tie danger, f specially regarding infant mortality, existed in the conditions under which milk was kept in private housed, and that public attention should he called to tne absolute m ces xity lor extreme cleanliness in the matter.” The committee recommended that draft r-gulations in respect t • the licensing ol milk vendors be recommended to the Finance Committee for adoption. The was agreed to.

At tin Suprein- r \>urt bolero >lr. •Justice Fdwards, Wtll'am Smith a ol Alice Simeon, who had been living together, pleaded guilty to breaking and «yitering a shop and stealing. Smith was found guilty on two other charges ot attempting tc 'tain, lisarm, »r disable «*r do actual Bodily harm to a constable- Sigith was lcund not guilty on the main charge ot attempted murder. In March last Smith and Simeon broke into a shop in Auckland, and as they were loayng it. Constable Coppell and a watchman. named Robert \\ bite, happened to be walking along the footpath, and grabbed at b.lt missed Smith, and a pursuit took place. Smith the.l twice at Coppell, who eventually secured the prisoner. Two years' haiii labour Was imposed on Smith tor robbery, and on the other charge ton years. Simeon, who had aided justice by confession, was admitted to probation for two years. Timaru, May 26.

A car- for nullification ot marriage came before the Supreme Court trom Ashburton, the wile being the appli-

cant. The ground of action was that she w r as a half-blood niece of her husband. The defence claimed a litera. reading of the table of prohibitions, which mentions nieces, not haltnieces Judge Cooper ruled that the law of Ecclesiastical Courts applied, and this prohibited marriages of halfblood relations in that degree. A decree nisi was granted. A peculiarity of the case was that both parties desired the application fso fail, but wished to test the legality of the marriage. Dunedin, May 27.

At a meeting of the local Advisory Committee in connection with the International Exhibition, it was reported that only one local body had responded to the request for funds. The Taieri County Council voted £25. The chairman said the general ieeling was that the cost of exhibiting and the deterioration of exhibits would be too great. It was resolved that Otago should not exhibit as a province, but show in the New court an that the £25 be returned to the Taieri County Council. It the 4000 ft. applied for its continuous it was suggested it might be marked “Otago exhibit.”

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