THE COURTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVII, Issue 12271, 3 September 1904, Page 5

THE COURTS.

Per Press Association

NAPIER, September 1

At the Supreme Ooui Jt, Reginald Simmondis, for theft of money from his eun_ ■pd'oyea', was latTmit'tied Ito pro'baitdon for two years, and ordered to make r-eeifcitu. talon.

Roy E'aig, Bol^ Furniss, and Oscar Andereon, 'tlhe Haelfcings boy burglars, ■were severely" lectured on the evils of their ways and ordered rbo com© ixp for sen'te'nee iVhen called upon. The Judge commented very strongly on t(he immoral tendency iof the pernicibus literature all-owed 'to be sold throughout the colony.

OHRISTOHURCH, September 2. ,At the. JNlagistxate's Couait, WilHam Henry Su'tteliffe, cliarged -\\vth -unlawfully using an instrument, was remanded itiill Sefp'tember 6. Thoanas Lawrence, 'eliiarged as aoceiasory jto the .alleged offence, was remanded tlo the same date. INVEROAO&GILL, Septeunber 2. At tlhe Supretm-a Court, -R. J. Harding "\vas found guilty on cTiarges of theft, forgery, and falise preitences, in donnectiocQ with'itihe sale) of a racehorise, and was sentenced to t'wellv© months' iliard lalbour.

NAPIER, September 2. At the Supreme- Court to-day Taka Mete was acquitted on a charge of as■sault witli intent. ■