BONDSMAN'S RESPONSIBILITIES

Shannon News, 1 April 1927, Page 3

BONDSMAN'S RESPONSIBILITIES

NEED FOR PRECAUTIONS. MAN'S FAILURE TO APPEAR. An unusual proceeding took place in the Hamilton Supreme Court when Francis Leonard O'Reilly was called on to show cause why the bail bond which he had signed with respect to John James Henry Blane should not be estreated. O'Reilly said he was an uneducated man, and when a policeman asked him if he would go bail for Blane, and told him there would be nothing to worry about, he had no hesitation in signing the document put before him. Mr. Strang, who appeared for the Crown, said Blane was at the Court a few days-before his case was called on, but when he was wanted he was nowhere to be found. It was learned later that Blane had become intoxicated and had gone to Onehunga, where his wife lived. Blane was later arrested and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for discharging a firearm with intent to intimidate. The judge said that O'Reilly was liable to a penalty of £IOO. There was an obligation on a bondsman to take precautions to see that the .man for whom he went bail was present when required. His Honour said he was satisfied, however, that Blane's failure to appear was not due to any fault of O'Reilly's. He would not estreat the bail, but O'Reilly would have to pay the costs amounting to £2 2s. The secretary of the Otaki Cricket Club has received the official ruling on the Paraparaumu v. Otaki match, which was played at Paraparaumu on February sth. In this match Paraparaumu batted first and declared their ]!»»»§* closed with six wickets down for -22* runs. Otaki went in and had made 22/ runs for five wickets and only three balls of an over had been bowled when the Paraparaumu umpire—who was standing .at square leg for that over and was not in charge of the game at the time—called "time." The Otaki umpire and all-the Otaki team.protested, but the Paraparaumu team and their umpire walked off the field. _As one of the Paraparaumu bowlers had deliberately wasted time for about the last twenty minutes of the game, with the connivance of the other members of the team, as he went unreproved by his skipper, the Otaki team felt very disgusted at the unsportsmanlike ending to what had been, up to that point, quite an exciting game. Law 13 M.C.C. states that the over should always be finished unless a wicket falls within two minutes of time. An over should always be begun if "time" has not been reached and should be finished, except as hereafter provided. "If a wicket falls within two minutes of ' time' the umpire should call ' time' unless the incoming batsman claims his right to bat for the remaining time. If a wicket falls after 'time' has been reached the umpire should call 'time.' "