Telegraphic.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) I T , Wairoa, Friday. Yesterday at the R.M. Court here Messrs J. T. Large and J. Powdrell, J.P. s, sentenced a native named Rawai Te Ranga to pay a fine of £8 and costs £1 149, or m default two months' imprisonment with hard labor in the Napier gaol, for a most cowardly and brutal assault on an elderly native woman named Makere, by which she was seriously injured about the head and her nose broken. The accused, having thrown her down, knelt on her and punched her in the face when she was down. The Bench had almost determined to treat the case as an indictable offence and send it to the Supreme Court, but ultimately they determined to deal with it summarily. The, accused pleaded guilty, but the evidence was conclusive without that. The acensed received the severest sentence the Act allowed the Bench to inflict. The prisoner left for Napier to-day by steamer.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8337, 13 April 1889, Page 2
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