SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13709, 25 September 1908, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

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NAPIKK, Sept. 21. Sitting in divorce, .Mr JhkUo.* chapman granted decrueo nisi in HuiHlKbv *. nun* <ll«?by (husband's pet-won), ami Aobuit v. Abbott and Miacui (hui>u-.uiu s for adultery). In thr lutioi sur. cost* vwie graitU'd ugaiuM. luc to iu:.ptn.uci<o mi Uie lower wale. A young man uaimd hrikL-'. (j.orge Mobon, found guilty yieuiiuy ol committing an unnatural otuue.- at \\ oudville, was tieutetuxxi to f«»nrt* -11 tears imprisonment. In ntMr Justice Chapman *<u<J. ' )«u h.»v<- b en convicted of one of die* tu"-i alMnuiiiublo offences described in our umial ia»», and the circunuirtanctK in which I If- offence wat> committed were more hmiible than anything I have ever heard of." At the Supreme Couri to day in the case of Wm. James Vickcr- charged with unlawful conversion of nKii<y> at Wairoa, the jury by direction of Mr .1 ti>t itv Chapman returned a verdict of t>"t guilty and ac-cuted was discharged. JoNvph Muran, alias Reynold wax fuutid aitilty of theft nf money in a hotel in Xapis:r and sentence was deferred. HOKITIKA, Sept. 24. In tho Supreme Court tho West port perjury case was continued. The proseiut ion has closed and the defeat* is proceeded with. Tn reply to tlio foreman of the jury Mr Justice Cooper caid he did not think thf ca*e would be finished before Tuesday or Wednesday n'Mt.