An Incorrigible Boy.

Manawatu Herald, 2 March 1899, Page 2

An Incorrigible Boy.

The Waipawa correspondent of the H.B. Herald, writing on Saturday, says:— At the Magistrate's Court today, before Messrs Johnson and Inglis Justices, Alexander Jamer Lory was charged with stealing peaches, value Bs, from Mr von Pein, Kaikora. The defendant was a boy aged xi, and he admitted taking the fruit, but said he_^i did not know he was doing wrong that another boy named Steven told . him to take it. He further admitted that he stole peaches and quinces from the same garden last year and the year before. To the constable who arrested him, while at school yesterday, he admitted, among other things, that he fired a stack that was burnt some time ago. The Bench had a difficulty in deciding what to do with him, being reluctant to send him to gaol. Ultima- 'jj tely they inflicted- a fine of ios, and ordered him to pay 8s damages. The Bench further made a recommendation to the S.M. that he should be sent to an industrial school. This is the same boy who the other day threw a bottle of ink over the dress of the schoolmistress at Kaikora school whereupon he was tied face down on a form by his school mates' for the greater ease and efficiency of a well, nferited corporal chastisement. »