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(To the Editor of tho Evening Star.) Sib,:—To settle a dispute, will you kindly state the amount of punishment inflicted on the bankrupt Meyers, of Auckland? Some affirm that it is but six months, while others to whom I have spoken are equally positive that, in the aggregate, it is a year and six months. By answering the above you will confer a favoßn— X.Y.Z. [Mr H. S. Meyers was sentenced to six. months* imprisonment on each of several charges of which he was found guilty, but the sentences were " concurrent," that is, each to begin and end at the same time. If the sentences had been " cumulative," then on» term would have commenced when the other was completed:—
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2830, 11 March 1878, Page 3
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120QUERY ? Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2830, 11 March 1878, Page 3
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