SUPREME COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9308, 7 August 1908, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

» IN CHAMBERS. Friday, Attgtjst 7. His Honor Mr Justice Denniston sat in Chambers in the Supreme Court this morning, and conducted the following business : — Probate was granted in re C. W. L. Barker (Mr Wright) ; re Ann Westerman (Mr Beattie); re John Andrews (Mr Harper); re Andrew Storry (Mr Harper) ; re John Coward (Mr Harper). The applications re Mary Ann Tyler (Mr Helmore) and Stephen Southern (Mi; Salter) were, deferred, as not complying with the recently gazetted requirement of a declaration of the values of the estates. . ■ Letters of administration in the estates of the following deceased persons were granted: — Matilda Ronaldson Smith (Mr Dougall), Jame3 Craw (Mr Malley), Edmund Ferguson Campbell (Mr Mosley). In re George Charles Smith (Mr M'Oonnell), no date being fixed for the presumptive death ot the deceased, hie Honor said he would look into the matter. In re Alexander Hogg (Mr Ritchie), the application was held over for further information ; and in, re James King (Mr Flesher), a modification of the securities was required. Mr Hunter applied for leave to take evidence on oommiepion in Horobrook and another v. Aepinall. The application was held over for a date to be agreed upon. Mr Wilding moved for directions as to service in re the petition of Charles Lewis concerning the settled estate of D. Lewie; and an order was made for service upon the ndult children. In Fail v. Lublow, a summons for change of venue, Mr Wright and Mr Brown agreed to, and asked for. an adjournnient till next Chamber sitting. The registrar's report re the remuneration of executors in the estate of Alfred Mitchell, deceased, was approved. In a motion for originating summons an the estate of the late A. J. White, Mr Izard appeared for the trustees. Mr Harper and Mr Brown for the children, and Mr Wright for the grand-children under the will. The case was to decide whether certain mone3 T s were income or capital under the will, as if income, the children were entitled to it as life tenants, if capital the grandi children were entitled to it as remaindermen, being the persons ultimately entitled to the xesiduo of the estate. The evidence of Mr Reid was taken, and the case was adjourned till 10.30 a.m. on Thursday.

[Pjsr Press Association.] DUNEDIN, August 7. ' At' the Supreme Court to-day, the following sentences were passed:— James Wells, breaking' and entering and theft, four months; Robert Cameron M'Kenzie, false pretences, three months; Stanley Archibald Dailey, obtaining money on credit by fraud, twelve months.