SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 44, 27 June 1913, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

[Pee Press Association.] Gisborne, June 26. At the Supreme Court torday, before His Honor Mr Justice Cooper, att he criminal sittings, Henry White, a young native, who pleaded guilty at Tokomaru Bay to stealing a horse, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor. Prisoner had a bad record, he having been admitted to probation for horse stealing at Auckland in February last, and had also served terms of three and a half months’ imprisonment and six months’ imprisonment on other charges. John Alexander Munroe, who was charged with assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was acquitted, as was also Nuia Makaore, on a charge of horse stealing. A claim for £SOO for slander, brought by Wi Pariare, a well-known native clergyman, against Wertini Te Ariki Huka, a native woman, was adjourned till to-morrow after evidence had been taken.