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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 6

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I Tin Waling Tayloi frauds ha\ g not excited si dup.in inkiest, heie as in Wellington, only because the position of the bankiupt iH'd the c liai.u'ioi of his trail-actions aie not sufficiently known. I\> all who have lolloped tho case, howevei, ;i feeling ot o t inline Miti-faotion will be e\penenc<.d that the man is not to escape properution. it A\ould be a disgiaee to oui judicial i-x^tun if a man xs ho has lock-lu-t>ly and shamelessly applied to hi* own use* thousands of pounces ot other peoploV money placed luulei his contiol in i<.liuieo upon his iutegtity wue let oil -rot hec, while, the needy vagabond who picks up a few uncon.sitlorcd trilles is >v\A to gaol without, compunction; yet Taylor hid nearly escaped Ihiough the loophole- of the law. Waling Taylor moved in the lirst -ots of Wellington society, a leading business street boie his name, ho was a pillar ot the Chinch, the man above his follows to ■whom any person in .search of ;i tiuttee would confide his good.s. And inanj difl pi.t their conlidencc in him, little suspecting that their tiusl -money Mas passed directly to hisown credit, to bo used in his business or in the furnishings of his mansion, or any ether way that suited his fancy. Some people who could ill allbid to loco their money— one an aged minister, another a poor governess— have loi-t their little all. Tlieic estates of larger amount, and in connection one ot theso eiiminal proceeding* have now been instituted. In that estate the bankrupt admitted .selling B;u.k of New Zealand fluit us and pa_V i!l^ the money into his own cicdil, although leading the poisons defrauded to belli. \e that tho investment- a\»still intact. When haul pre.s ed to disgoige the jilundei fiom one estate he^u-ul another to sfa\c oil the too pressing ci editor^. The inc\ itablo crash came a( l.i-t, .md tlicn tho ci editors wcic toldt'ial tho law makes no piovi-ion lor bununx the ( xpens'.s of prosecution in such cases, and thai it the pet -ons di;fi, aided wished to p<i<n-'i the untiithful .stewaid, they nmsl meieisc tlicir l.is-os by committing them- eh es to t lie cost ot an uncertain lawsuit. iMr Samuels, member for New Plymouth, canied a lesolutiun in tho House ot Representatives dtflninir that the (io\ernmentought to pio-eeuie in -ueli caso-j, and henoo pio)>al>ly iho actions that l>a\e at. length been nistitined. f l he number of the bankrupt's sh idy transactions maybe infencd fiom the si\- or .seven separate informations already laid, and the icpoit that twelve otheis ato in prepaiation. It tho commercial moiality ot tlic country is to maintain a healthy tone, neither personal influence nor commiseration for the families of men in Wai ing Tayloi 'h jio.sitfon ought to s-ave them from prosecution for llagrant breaches of trust.

Tho Maori King is highly di-\«atisficd with his own people suieo hi& ictura fnun England. Tho Te Awamulu oom^pondcnt ot tho " Waikato Times" wiite-, .- " Tauhiao, not sal usticd (to it i.« reported hero among tho natives) with tho cool rceop< ion accorded l.i im by tho Ngatimaninpoto* on his return from England, i^ about to leave Whatiwhatihoeand take up his ie-idonoe at, Lower Waikato None of tho piineip.il chiefs of that ti ibe Moro present to welcome him on hiri arrival. When asked what news he brought back with him, he paid ho only brought tho blue ribbon. but that To Whooro would on hi^ return mako known tho result of the miss-ion. When questioned on religious matters, Tawhiao said he would not attempt to coerce anyone, that thero woio sovoral denominations of tho Christian faith, and that his pooplo could ploa^o themselves which they adopted, or could if thoy chop© profess tho Ilauhau religion. Liko most natives, his idoa of leligion is a very hazy one."