SUPREME COURTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1496, 7 October 1886, Page 3

SUPREME COURTS.

Auckland, Oct. 4. At the crittiinal sessionsiThos. Chambers, for uttering a forged cheque, got 18 months; Jas. MacNulty, for larceny as a bailee, six months ; Patrick Anderson, for brenkiug and entering, two years ; Luke O'Brien, for larceny, three years ; John Henrickson, for horse stealing, eighteen months, and James Milne, for larceny, twelve months. Wellington, Oct. 4. At the Supreme Court to-day, William Templeton, alias Woods, was sentenced to eighteen months for burglary. Benj. Hobbins, larceny from the person, was acquitted. Oct. 5. James Mitchell, mKas McKeniie, for the jewellery robbery, was found guilty, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Christchurch, Oct. 4. John Hughes, for forging and uttering a cheque for £B, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude ; Thomas Hooper, for herse stealing, to two years hard labor; Cecil Williams and Edward Buckingham, two lads, for stealing from a dwelling, to two years; Richard Moana (a Maori) and Matthew Wells, for cattle stealing, twelve months' hard labor. George Maoning Rees was convicted of manslaughter. Tha charge arose out of alleged neglect, and ill-treatment of his wife at St. Albans during her last illness. He was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor. Oct. 5. George Joseph Russell, charged with forgery, was acquitted ; Knie Kelly, manslaughter, was sentenced to one days' imprisonment. J Utjnedin, Oct. 4. John Pcmeroy was found guilty of forging and uttering and sentence deferred. John Stuart, charged with obtaining money under false pretences, was acquitted. Henry Percy Fisher, was sentenced to three years for larceny. Oct. 5.

George Godfrey was found guilty of stealing a watch ; sentence was deferred. John Ducket, charged with rape on his stepdaughter, 11 years of age, was fouod not guilty. In the case of How Chew Sing, who pleaded guilty to robbery from a dwelling, Mr Galloway appeared for the defence, and asked that the prisoner should be dealt with under the First Offenders Act. The judge said it was doubtful whether he could entertain the application, as the Act was intended to apply prima facie to British subjects and Europeans, and he saw sprne difficulty in the way of applying it to foreigners. He did not want to exclude them from the benefit of this Act, but prima facie he should say the Legislature had not taken their case in view. The case was ordered to stand over,

Oct. 6. At the Supreme Court, Geo. Godfrey, convicted of lnr'-eny, wna riiselur-uJ under th - Fiwt Offen-iers Probation Act, the Judge direoting the expenaaa of the prosecution to be paid out of money earned by the prisoner.