SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11581, 23 May 1916, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

CRIME IN AUCKLAND. § Per Press Association. Auckland, May 22, In charging the Grand Jury at the opening of tho Supreme Court, Justice" Chapman expressed regret at the size of tho calendar, twenty live cases being on the list. Ho failed to understood why there should be sn/lieient criminal cases to occupy the Court three weeks in Auckland when the sessions in other centres wore disposed of in three days. The attraction of a warmer climate tor undesirables who would not live in a more bracing climate probably had something to do with it. Ho dealt at length with the charges vaninst Kna and four of his followers, outlining the history leading up to their arrest, Rna had been guilty of seditious utterances in January, when he said that “The King of England was beaten. When Germany won he would he King here.” When a man set up such pretensions and engaged about him a lot of idle people who might ho disposed to be disorderly, and when such actions interfered with recruiting, it was absolutely necessary to take steps to prevent them. The Grand Jury must decide whether this amounted to sedition, and ho concluded by briefly reviewing the encounter at Run’s Pa,