WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8341, 2 December 1893, Page 4

WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT

(Per United Press Association )

WaxxnreTOH, November 30.

Tbo criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened before the Chief Justice. There was nothing of importance in tbe charge, His Honor only referring to the more serious offences. Cooke and Burton, oq fire charges of breaking and entering at Wellington, and Josh Knight, for burglary at FeiWing, pleaded guilty, and were remanded for sentence, James Minnoi for larceny at Fabiatua was sentenced to 12 month*. Ho bill was returned against J. O. Ward for embezzlement.

December 1.

At the Supreme Court this morninsr. J. Knight mi sentenced to seven years' ponal servitude on the charge of burglary at Feilding. Tha prisoner, who is a yonng man, served sentences in South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales for homebreaking, his last sentence being ten years' penal servitude. He told the gaoler he vac unable to obtain employment when he arrived in New Zealand, and had committed the burglary out of sheer necessity. The Chief Justice said that men of the prisoner's class had been coming from other colonies lately, and the sentence he had inflicted was intended at a deterrent. Daniel Phillips, for indecent eetaolt on a young girl at Belxuont, km sentenced to two years' hard labour. Two lads named Edward Cloko and William Burton received tic months' hard labour for larceny, the sentences to commence at the termination of the present ••ntencet for similar offences.

Hi» Honor increased tho sentence on Cloke and Barton to nine months, in order that the sentence the; are now serving would be 12 months.

H. Valille, convicted of larceny, was re« ma&dcd for sentence. In the charge of patting counterfeit money ogainst Dennis Dribcolt and James IComt, Hii Honor decided there was no evidence against Morris and discharged htm. The charge against Driacoll is proceediog.