Friday, 9th September.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 136, 15 September 1870, Page 7

Friday, 9th September.

The Court opened at 10 o'clock. Frederick Lange, 39, who had pleaded Guilty of two charges of embezzlement, was brought up for sentence. In answer to the usual question, the prisoner said he had nothing to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. He knew that he had transgressed, and was willing to satisfy His Honour. That was the reason he bid pleaded guilty, but he begged to assure His Honour that he never intended to defraud. The prisoner asked permission to call witnesses as to character. Henry Friedlich was called, and stated that he had been acqviainted with prisoner for the last 15 or 16 years, and the latter, up to the time of this offence, was one of the most honourable young men whom he had ever known. The prisoner reminded the learned Judge that Mr. Bastings, Mayor of Lawrence, had already given evidence in his favour, and a testimonial had also been submitted on his behalf. His Honour said : Frederick Lange, you have pleaded guilty to two indictments for embezzlement. I have read the memorial which you have presented to me, and heard what you have just said. I have no doubt that what you state is true — that at the time you appropriated the money you intended to restore it. Now, the offence was complete when you took it. It very often happens that persons who commit forgeries or appropriate money, cheques, or other securities, do so with the intention of quietly restoring it before discovery. If, however, discovery takes place before the time arrives for restoration, their ultimate intention is no defence. It very often happens, for instance, that a person will forge another's name to an acceptance, intending quietly to take it up. Well, he runs two risks. The first is, that the forgery may be discovered before the time arrives for taking it up ; and the second, that when the time arrives he may not have money to take it up. I can very well see from the statements in your memorial the cause of the crime which you have been led to commit ; and it is simply one that very often operates in the same direction — living beyond your income. Persons with fixed incomes should live within them, because if they do otherwise, the deficiency in their means keeps accumulating, and in an evil hour they are tempted to appropriate money or to commit some other crime. However, you have one advantage — you have the recommendation to mercy of the person best entitled to make it, namely, the person whose money you appropriated. The sentence of the Court is that on the first indictment you be imprisoned for 12 calendar months, and kept to hard labour ; and on the second indictment, that you be imprisoned for six calendar months, and kept to hard labour; the second term to cumulate on the first.

There was a rumour about Melbourne on April 2 that the home-for-the-holi-days daughter of a certain professional man at St. Kilda had suddenly evinced a romantic affection for a good-looking young person of the opposite sex who spoke broken-English with a French accent, visited the family in the capacity of a fish-seller, and lived in a tumbledown hut in the tea-tree scrub on the beach between St. Kilda and Brighton. Wandering on the beach out of the ken of the family governess, the young lady had heard the fisherman in question, who happened to be gifted with a fine voice, singing some " song of his native land," in which the words " beaux yeux" and " idole de mon ame" occur in almost every second line. Understanding just so much of French acayoung lady picks up at a Melbourne boarding-school, and cherishing that feeling of romance of which a young lady picks up a far larger quantity with much more facility, the flirt of coming ball-rooms showed herself equal to the occasion, and with the blessing of Cupid and the aid of a, dictionary, got up such a romantic series of events that the indignant parent had to intefere. Dinah was sent to her room without even the consolation of getting another husband botli " gallivant and gay," and Villikins was threatened with the interference of the police. Very unromantic of course, but it's true, and it is to be hoped that both young ladies and fishermen will take the warning. Solloway's Pills. — There is no hazard in saying that the popularity of Professor Holloway's remedies in this country is without a parallel in our medical annals. The instances in which sick pcr 'sons professionally condemned to death have recovered under the operation of these miracle-working Pills, are so numerous and so well authenticated, that the most stubborn incredulity is silenced. Hosts of sufferers from indigestion, liver complaints, nervous debility, disorders of the bowels, epileptic fits, pulmonary diseases, and other internal distempers, have been cured by this unapproachable medicine when every other had failed. The press teems with the testimonials of the parties, and while we wonder we are compelled to believe.