PAYING THE PENALTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15770, 19 November 1914, Page 5

PAYING THE PENALTY.

PRISONERS FOR SENTENCE. \

MORMON LAD IN TROUBLE.

MAIMING FIVE BULLS.

I I Three prisoners, who had admitted their ! guilt in the Lower Court, were brought ; before His Honor Mr. Justice Cooper in ■ the Supreme Court yesterday for sentence. j A youth named Abraham Merrick, who looked very much older than his supposed | age of 15 years, said that he had nothing : to say why sentence should not he passed ; upon him. Referring to the offence to ! which Merrick had pleaded —that 'of maiming five young bulls at Kaukapa- | kapa —His Honor said that it was a bad 1 case indicating a diseased condition of : mind. As there was some uncertainty ! about the prisoner's age, His Honor j ordered a remand until Monday week, , indicating that if it was proved that ' Merrick was under 16 years of age he j would be sent to an industrial school. A statutory declaration of the boy's age l w.;ll be obtained meanwhile from his father. It was stated that prisoner was a ! Mormon by religion. His Honor sai3 he I did not think that the State recognised I such a religion—at any rate, not under I that name. There would, however, be I time before the prisoner was brought up j again to inquire about this matter. His I conduct had certainly been no recommendation for the religion.

VALUABLE HORSE STOLEN. AN UNFAVOURABLE REPORT. Montague Mann, who had stolen a horse, valued at over £50, and a saddle and bridle at Te Aroha, had no comment to make upon an unfavourable report from the probation officer. This described him as being of a very lazy disposition, of a somewhat weak mind, and a fit subject for reformative treatment. The stolen horse, since recovered and returned to its rightful owner, was sold to a. Maori for £5. The sum of £4 odd in the possession of the prisoner was ordered to be returned to the Maori, the prisoner himself being sentenced to a period of reformative treatment not. exceeding 12 months. A NATIVE'S FORGERY

VALUABLE HORSE STOLEN,

PROBATION TO BE SOUGHT.

A well-dressed native, Wiremu Matangi Kohu, brought up for sentence on a charge of forgery, asked for a remand, as he wanted a solicitor to plead for probation for him. A remand until next Monday was therefore granted. The fore milk, in addition to being of poor quality, is also contaminated with bacteria of various species that have entered the cow's teats, and sometimes the Lower parts of the milk cisterns of the udder. If the first few squirts of milk from each teat were discarded the milk would be of a higher standard of quality and much freer from bacteria. An essential point in milking is to keep the milk as ; free as possible from bacteria. j Every year it grows more and more popular; a medicine is valued by the result, rot by Quantity. Baxter's Lung Preserver is toe i inotS effective cough mixture in New Zealand.