SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4009, 16 August 1915, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTCXn" SESSIONS. (Press Association Telegram.l WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. Temuera Tokaitua, a Maori minister from Otaki, came un for sentence before the Chief Justice mi Saturday on a charge of having married Europeans and therein committed a breach of the Marriage Act. Mr T. E. llaofiel applied for the release of the prisoner on the ground that he )ia !l not been validly committed in that his plea was not one of guilty, as shown on the proceedings. His Honor said he would not uphold tho application. He told prisoner tout lie had. done a very foolish thing, but be h ould be discharged.

DUNEDIN SESSIONS. (Press Association Telegram.) DUNEDIN, Aug. Jo. Tho criminal quarterly, sittings ot the Supremo 'Court were continued on Saturday before Mr Justice Sim. John Bell McClymont was acquitted on a charge of stealing £'■! 14s (id, the purchase money ol a sword presented by r him to George Monro' Cato, His Honor pointing out that, while the prosecution contended that the presentation was a private one, the Government Auditor had passed it as. a regimental account. Jn the remaining three charges formulated against McClymont, that of stealing £2l 7s, the amount of a cheque paid to him as a share of canteen profits of the 14th South Otago Regiment) the jury, after four hours’ retirement, failed to agree, and a new trial was ordered to take place on Monday. •Tames Kirkman, alias Turner, who had been found guilty of threatening set fire to the Victoria Bright Hotel, was sentenced to the' full term of two years’ imprisonment, his Honor regarding it as dangerous for prisoner to be at large.