MANSLAUGHTER.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 129, 3 June 1920, Page 5

MANSLAUGHTER.

MAORI FOUND GUILTY.

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..' ;■■■,'.■;[; !' : .", % ..,aiigelan-i>/. June.^. ;• The. trial :'■• i Hona Herewini, charged iwith •:.the toanslaiighter ;ip| .Mei-'-Heimi'Hui at; Aw.an-ui, was concluded before Judge Chapman to-day. After.. a•• retirement' of;-■ two "TioijrS, the, jury returned with a yerdic^; of guilty, with d strorijg- Fecommenda^tion to mercy: A rider was added stating that the amoiirit of drinking Avhi.ch apparently was permitted among .the natives at the ■•'Awahui Hotel was deserving of censure. ' . ! The Judged deferred sentence.