WELLINGTON.
Thursday.
Judge Richmond, in passing sentence on Moffatt, said: If your offence were to be punished in proportion to the danger which it occasioned to the public, you ought to receive a heavy sentence. You are to be looked upon by all well judging persons as an enemy to both races in this island. One the one hand you have been strengthening against your fellow-coun-trymen a merciless foe, for Maori victory you well know means massacre, sparing neither friend nor sex. On the other hand you have been encouraging the disaffected in a vain resistance to the advance of civilization. You have been planning disaster for Europeans, but for the natives you have been preparing an utter destruction. The evidence has but given a glimpse of your proceedings, but enough, however, to disclose their dangerous and treasonable t character. It is well for you that the present time is one of profound peace, or you could expect, as you wculd deserve, nothing but the halter. lam going to pass upon you a most inadequate sentence, but it is the heaviest which is allowed by the extreme lenieacy of the law on this subject. Prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2591, 27 April 1877, Page 2
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204WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2591, 27 April 1877, Page 2
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