SUPREME COURT.
PUR PIIES3 ASSOCIATION. Gisborne, April 12.' At the Supreme Court two native i were convicted and remanded until Monday oq an application for probation.
The law points raised in the perjury casa were overruled.
| Honi Birini, a smart looking hilfcaste, came up for sentence for forg«ty, He had gone into the office of Mr Nolan (Grown prosecutor), taken a cheque, of which the brdy bad been filled in, forced a tignnture, otvairird goods with tbe cheque, und spe_,t tlu rest in dissipation. On oirt's. hosiid it was n joke and th it be was drU'iit. Counsel, in pleading for probation, mentioned that prisoner i fccoi tly returned from South Africa, nnH hai b en excited by the travelling. His Honor said, "We bavu sent 5000 men to Africa. Surely you don't imply the others are going to act liko ihis." Counsel replird in the negative. Mr Nolan, being tailed, siid he hud known prisoner fn m cbiluhood, hi d heard anything aga<nst his character un'il this affair. Prisoner wa« adtniltel to prohatirn, r(slitti ! ioi. of the money to b« bade atd ixptjjtea paid.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 86, 14 April 1902, Page 2
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185SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 86, 14 April 1902, Page 2
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