SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1706, 20 March 1895, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

(By Telegraph.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 19. Application has been lodged m the Supreme Court for a vwndamm to compel the Registrar-General to put A. B. Worthington on the list of 'officiating ministers under the Marriage Act. It will come before Mr Justice Deuniston at next sittings m Banco, DTJNEDIN, March 19. Mr Justice Williams to-day gave his decision m the appeal case m which George Alves had been convicted by Mr Rawson, S.M., Invercargill, on an information charging him with obtaining £8 by false pretences. His Honour said that the only evidence of false representation m writing was that appellant gave a cheque drawn by himself on a bank at which he had no account, and which cheque he knew would uot be paid when presented; that was not false representation m writing, but an order for payment of money. What might have happened had the appellant been charged with false verbal misrepresentation, it was unnecessary to determine. The appeal must be allowed and the conviction quashed. Appellant ought to have been committed for trial on the original information.