AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 12 August 1908, Page 5

AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

(Per Press Association.) 'Pi c ■ AUCKLAND, August 11. ihe Supreme Court criminal sessioir %£** y- Mr Ju6tico Edwarfe expressed keen regret that it would bothe Court to sit during Fleet \\eek" He had never met £ mort, manly, irank and unspoilt body oi v gentlemen than the officers of tho American navy, and we should do our utmost, to entertain them. - Ho would mako tlio duties of jurors as light a*, possible to enable them to devote a« much time as possible to entertain their American guests. Alluding to tbocharges of theft of postal notes against several persons, Judgo Edwards said the evidence was that accused, in com-' inon with other officers, had an opportunity of committing the crime. la uddititm to that evidence hand-writing: experts were prepared to ewear to the best of their belief that the signatured forged on th& postal notes were signed, by the men charged. Export evidence was always to ba received with certain uoubt.

WELLINGTON, August 10. In the Divorce Court to-day, a decree nisi was granted in *tha cssft Stephen Johns v. Florence Johns and William Wilson (co-respondent.)