SUPREME COURT.
Per Press Associatioa. AUCKLAXD. February 23. At the Supreme Court Frank Herbert Laing, who pleaded guilty to contracting several debts with. Auckland business people without a reasonable prospect of paying them, and with contributing to bis bankruptcy by rash and hazardous speculation and gambling, was sentenced to two years* hard labour. DUXE.DIX. February 20. In Rex v. O. Dis- ?, against whom three charges of a serious nature were preferred, Judge Cooper quashed the indictment, balding that the relationship of stepfather and step-daughter did not come within the degrees of affinity provided for in section 2 of the Criminal Code Amendment Act. 1900.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12906, 21 February 1906, Page 5
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