SUPREME COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6273, 2 September 1898, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

TPe« Press Association.;) " WELLINGTON, Sept. 1. At the Supreme Court, a young man named Peter Olsen, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for an assault at Pahiatua W- D. Hartley w;.a.acquitted on a charge of procuring 3«jlb of gra,ss seed by fa'se pretences. Henry M Laughhn, an old offender, was sent, need to nine months' imprisonment for picking a Maori's pocket on his way balk from the races. DUNEDIN, Sept. 1. At the cri nirtal sittings' Francis lieriott Laiiib was ami^-d on a charge, under the Bankrupt.- A-fit, of having failed to keep propor ! ©'l<s <* account. It transpired in evidence that when the Official' ■ Assignee sent to Mr Young, who'liad taken over Lmngs business, for all- the books K'longmg to Lamg the stoteman pacia-d up and sent to the Assignee ahonfc five sacks of papers, books, etc., but the Assignee refused to take them. They were all dirty, being tbe\aecunv..Utir.ii of four or five years. Several minor books u*ed wpre not before the Court. The j dry, after an hour s retirement, retiirm-1 a vm-dtct of not guilty, adding a rider that the Assignee made an ' error in not examining the ha<r to se«-. what books were in it. Lain*'was arrested as;ain as soon as discharged, on the trnniiid that he was about •to leave his residence with a view of defeating, deWvimr-or embarrassinjHhe proceedings. He was admitted to bail.