SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2671, 29 November 1909, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SITTINGS

TPer Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Nov. 27

At- the Supreme Court, yesterday, a young Maori, named Mark Meusies, convicted of assault on a girl eight years of .age, was sent to gaol for three years, being also ordered a flogging of 20 lashes. Richard John Yeoman, 50 years of age. for indecently assaulting two little girls, was sent to gaol for seven years. Peter Alexander, who pleaded guilty to two charges of uttering, received a sentence of two years.

WELLINGTON SITTINGS

"WELLINGTON, Nov. 27. At the Supreme Court yesterday, Mary Smith was ordered to come up for sentence when called on for making an incorrect declaration regarding the birth of her baby. Stanley Levingham Wright and William Kendall, farmers, had pleaded guilty at Pahiatua to two charges of sheep-stealing. It appeared that had shot animals which they believed to be wild cattle. Accused were released in the meantime, the matter to come up again on Wednesday, when the Justices and others who heard the case will be examined. Four lads, Harold Pearce. James EH is Coulson, Albert Stockhridge, and William Devoreux, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft, were brought up for sentence. Pearce, who had a previous conviction, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. The other three were sent to gaol for one month each. SITTINGS AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 27. At the Supreme Court to-day Mr. Justice Denniston sentenced George Sydney Besant to six months, and stated that on another appearance lie would he treated as an habitual criminal. The charge was breaking and entering at Timaru on November 20, but His Honor had doubts as to the object being theft.