SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 17 November 1911, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSiONS. (l > e]• Press Association.) Wellington, November 10. In the Supreme .Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, Edward Rosenberg was charged with having counselled Cecil Robert Ellison to steal 170 oicyclo tubes from the Dunlop Rubber Company, thus becoming party to the thole, and also with having received the same goods knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, and prisoner was remanded till Saturday tor sentence, bail being allowed. Eight wharf labourers, Alfred Nelson, Donald McPherson, Anton Olsen, John Kindle, William Young, Fred. Lindsay, James Wright, Backhouse, and Henry Douglas, were charged with (1) stealing a 221!) caddy of Havelock tobacco, valued at £b Is, from tiie Union Company’s steamer Moana; (2) receiving the same knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. All the accused pleaded not guilty. Nelson, McPherson, Wright and Douglas were acquitted. Olsen, Kindle, and Bachonso were found guilty, and Vouog was found guilty on the second count. Sentence was deferred till Saturday morning.

AN AUCKLAND DIVORCE. Aucland, November 17. • At the Supreme Court a decree nisi was granted in the divorce case William Hay v. Emily Hay, John Wolf being named as co-respondent. The respondent had left her husband and two children. In a letter she said slie loved Jack with all her heart and did not think it right to live with her husband and think of the other man. She begged her husband to be good and kind to the children.