THE CASE OF EMBEZZLEMENT BY A GOVERNMENT OFFICER.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCfATION.)i O'. Hawera,. February 25. " Wilkinson,.,receiver of land revenue, |was brought up, on remand, yesterday, charged with embezzling£l6 3s. Mr. Barleyman,Crown Prosecutor, asked for a further remand, as an officer from the Treasury was up investigating accounts, but had.not yet been able to go :, T through thpm all. Mr. Ward, as , counsel for? . Wilkinson, opposed the remand, but the Bench granted it till Tuesday next. . Mr. Ward asked'that the bail : might be' reduced, biit the ' request was refused. : Mr. Ward then said that ' life hoped the Bench had not been swayed by an article which had : ’appeared in the Patea ' Mail of Thursday, and strongly animadverted upon its contents. Mr. Barleyman agreed with 'Mr. Ward, and deprecated comments oh a case Whilst before the Court. The Bench agreed ’ with the remarks made by counsel,' but stated . that they had not been influenced in any way by the comments in the newspaper alluded to. !
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 473, 5 March 1881, Page 8
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