STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2087, 15 September 1896, Page 2

STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

AKAROAi September: 12, 1896. Before A. I. McGregob ESQ., JP. ,'

~, Theodore Harward,: who < had beejn re - manded from the prerious day, was again brought up on a charge of yagrancy, and, being an idle person, under the Po'ice Offenoee Act, TLe accused bad been" loafing ebont the Maori pettleooenti, to which the Natives objeoted; .■,■■■ , The Police, gave-evidence that the accused had been provionsly convicted of 88»er»l nffcnoea at Litle River, '

Peni, an Onuku Native, also gave evidence that he was an undesirable character to be about Nitire settlements, and tbat tbey generally objected to hie presence. The acoueed in reply ti (he Bench eaid he wae only seventeen and a half years o'd, and tbat be intended t> go crayfishing. The Bench said bia record wae co bid that be must bo punished , * Hβ had previously been let off for a eerious charge by being ordered to come up for-eentenci), and he bad also beep ordered t« be whipped, a sentence which be had by k legal technicality also eecaped. He won'd now bn Bent for one. calendar- month t»Lyita'toD gaol, and there to be kept at bard labour.