SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 30 November 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Friday. The Supreme Court to-day is engaged in hearing a charge of defamatory libel against Arthur Becsou. The case arose out of a sermon preached by prisoner, who is a lay preacher, in a letter sent to the Superintendent of the Government Advances to Settlers' Office lie accused William James Pollock, a clerk, of having committeed a serious offence against two young girls. * Waka Waka Hepere, a Maori youth, 17 years old, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a girl.

Christehuch, Friday. James Wilson, a young man, who had pleaded guilty in the Magistrates' Court at Lyttclton to a charge of brea'king and entering, appeared at the Supreme Court for sentence. Prisoner complained that lie had been in the employment of the Harbor Board; but, his employers learning that he had been, in gaol lie had to leave. He was also a deserter from the warship Pioneer. He was sent to gaol for three years and warned that if be came up again his record was so bad that lie would be treated as a liabitual criminal.

Wellington, Last Night. The case in which Pollock is bringing a private prosecution against Beeson charging him with slander was not finished when the Supreme Court rose for the day. Dunedin, Last Night. _■ At the Supreme Court to-day William Patrick Harrington was found guilty of receiving property knowing it to have been stolen. This was the second count, the other being a charge of having stolen €lls worth of goods from the Mutual Stores. Sentence will be passed tomorrow morning. George James Cruickshank Smart was charged on two counts of stealing money received by him on terms requiring him to account for the same to the State Fire Insurance, of which he was at the time local manager. The case for the Crown was completed, and defending counsel addressed the jury. His Honor sums ii]) this morning, and sentences persons found guilty on other charges. Auckland, November 29. Frederick William Jones, for some time employed as a postal messenger, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence for forging a money order telegram for £lB. The offence was admitted.