SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3744, 25 May 1901, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

Auckland, May 23. At the Supreme (mart to-day, Henry Johnston, ex-cranager of the Kauri Timher Company, who pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of intent to defraud, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Wellington, May 23. The Fiorard case was again before the Supreme Court this morning, when both the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Edwards threw on the Crown the onus of taking the initiative, if there was to be a new tna', and as no application was made they duchargod the accused.

Anion" the well-dressed crowd that waited in Collins street, Melbourne, to see the Royal procession there stood says the Argils a little withered man, with grey stubbly chin. His lips wore tobacco stained, and his lace brown aad "rim}’. On his back he carried a led blanket, rolled in a piece of hessian. In one hand ho held a black, iidless billycan, from the bandit) of which were slung two dirty tucker bans. The man was a typical sundowner, lie was very anxious to see their Royal Highnesses, and pushed into the crowd, lie cut such a figure with his ill tilting clothes and his hcelless boots that no one cared about standing next to bin), and so ho saw what he declared lie had tramped 500 miles to see. His battered old "hat was highest in the air, and his hurrah was the loudest when the Duke came to that portion of the street were the old man stood Forty million tons a year of coal is used in ironmaking by England and America, twenty million by Germany and France, and there have been 2100 explosions in coal mines in the last fifty years, involving a loss of 8900 lives. A Gkeat Medicine. “ I have used Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and find it to be a great medicine,” says Mr E. S. Phipps, of Potoau, Ark. "It cured me of bloody tins, I cannot speak too highly of it.’ This remedy always wins the good opinion if not praise, of those who use it. The quick cures which it effects even in the most severe cases make it a favorite everywhere. For sale by J. C. Oddie, Temuka, and Morrison Bros., Geraldine.