The Chinese who were recently convicted of robbing a tail race near Naseby were tentensed by Mt Justice Williams to the maximum penalty of three years' penal servitude, Both prisoners protested that they were innocent, and one of them asked that he should be hanged instead of being imprisoned. His Honor, in passing sentence, expressed the opinion that the prisoners baa been properly convicted, and alec complimented Constable Willis on the oars and intelligeoM ba had displayed in oonnneeUon with tha ■see, and on the satisfactory manktr la which hi had ginn his atitHnoo
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 254, 31 January 1889, Page 2
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94Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 254, 31 January 1889, Page 2
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