SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13703, 18 September 1908, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association.

GISBORNE, Sept. 17.

In the Supreme Court the grand jury returned no bill in the case of Wm. Rawell, charged with issuing a valueless cheque and 'rue bills in the case o ialleged attempted murder at Pakarao and in all other indictments presented.

The Maori Tu Raroa was acquitted on ;v charge of horse-stealing.

Michael Cleftry was acquitted ou a charge of breaking and entering. In the case of Norman Marlow charged with carnally knowing ;a girl under 16 years of age, the jury after 4J hours failed to agree and a new trial was ordered.

HOKITIKA, Sept. 17.

The half-yearly sitting of the Supreme Court opened this morning. Mr Justice Cooper congratulated the m* Vict on the absence of serious crime. The onlv eerious case was a perjuty charge coming irom outside the Westiand district True bills were returned in the ca*e < f Robert Armstrong 'carnal knowledge) an 1 William McAuh-y (gold .stealingi. lkitli were acquqitted.

DUNEDIX. Sept. 17.

Mr Justice Williams, in the l)iv«>ive Court this morning, grant«*l it decree ni.-i in a cas>e in which tlw petitioner, a young woman .sued for divorce on the ground of the insanity of the respondent, who had become in«ant> twelve month.* after the marriage, and had atteaipt>"d to commit suicide. The matter of publicity having been brought up by counM-1, who .stated that there was no misconduct, the judue .•aid tlieiv was not the slightest occasion to publish the names of the parties.