SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 382, 10 December 1889, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Auckland, Depomber 9. At the Supremo ; . Court to-day Daniell B, Orchard was brought up on "the eight charges, preferred; against him of havlh'g forged and uttered a forged bill. He pleaded guilty on every indictment, Mr E. Cooper, who • appeared ; for the accused, asked that the.provisions of the First Ofend'ors &;■ px(,ei)dpd jii, thjn 'paw,' hue .'|ij3.'i Honor, Mr' Justice Conblly, declined the applicatipu. Mr Cooper eaidj tliat the prisoner, v/hp w ft bj|| broker well-known in Auckland for many years, bad been induced in an incautious moment to endorse certain bills, apd when they could not bo met he gave fraudulent renewals to avoid the stigma of bankruptcy. Tho prisoner had not benefitted by these forgeries. The money he had obtained had gono to pay interest'. ,Hjs Mono?, in pp,BSin« senteijce, commohtei} 'on tllp previous'' good oharacter of the accused, and said his task' wag a most painful one,.. He sentenced Orchard to. seven years' penal servitude. Edward Eanginia, ,oho, Nativo whose arrest recently for breaking and entering caused some sensation because of the prisoner's connection with several, religious bodies, was brought btfore the Court, He pleadod guilty to the charge, lljs Honor rofused to releaso llim on probation, and- sontenood Mm to ; twelve months' imprisonment: fljth hard labour,

Tawhiao's ManifestoAuckland December 9, The authorship of the manifesto Raid to have been issued at a recent Native meeting near Cambridge ■ has been repudiated by Tawbiao, who states that ho knows nothing .of the 'document, His secretary also denies aoy knowledge of tb,e manifesto.

The Irish DelegatesWellington, Tuesday. As tbo result of the Irish delegates visit the first instalment (amounting to £605) of Wellington's donation to the Irish evicted teuant's relief fund, will bo seut Home by Thursday's mail,

"'•' Lahor Union. '■'"• ' ■ Curisioiil'koh, Tuesday, ■An -adjourned meeting- of Kaiapoi laborers, to consider_ the labor question, was held atKaiapo'i, last evening. It Ws resolved to.form; an amalgamated Labours' Union ofI Kaiapoi. ! Sixty names were enrolled.

Te Wb/\ to be Arrested- • NOTtYtmouth, Tuesday. Some time since Mr Btitt, an Opuuald slonkeepeiv sued and ob-y '' ' taindd judgment against To for L 202 for goods supplied, 'ThisW not being paid plaintiff applied *£■ for a judgment summons, when Te Whiti was ordered to pay in six months' time, or in default; to bo imprisoned for three months,: To Whiti refuses to pay the money or let the Natives pay it for him, bo bs the time has expired a summons for his body was issued yesterday, and the bailiff left town this morning to execute it. The bailiff was accompanied to Parihaka by Mr ?*, Carriugton, interpreter, and ConKstable Hickman, ' Later, The Tarauaki Herald's Pungarehu correspondent'wires:—Te Whiti was attested at Parihaka this morning.

Indecent Literature. . Wellington, Tuesday. A charge of dissemination of indecMt literature against Coogan and Hill was beard this morning. The former, a boy, pleaded guilty; buttbe charge against Hill failed, because the Police Offences Act provides only for the sale or wilful offering for distribution,-and neither jk could be proved. Hill is now being ™ tried on another charge of procuring copies of the objectionable stuff. It is stated a number of copies were

distributed among the girls attending one of the public schools. ■On the second charge, which was an indictable offence, Hill was committed for trial. Although Coogan pleaded guilty the case against was withdrawn as it was on all fouß with that against Hill which was dismissed. '" '