A PECULIAR OAT CASE.
(per press association.) Invercargill, June 13. After a hearing extending over three days, Thomas Cournane . and Joseph Valie, of Wairoa, were committed for trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of larceny of oats belonging to the brother of the latter, over which an unsatisfied lien exists. The oats were taken from where they wers threshed, 150 sacks disappearing in a single night, and were found on tho farm of Cournane in different buildings, some of them branded with his brand. He denies all knowledge of the larceny. The strongest point against him is that he did not inform the police after his alleged discovery that the oats were on hia far > , a constable having previously found them unknown to him. Valle had a grievance in connection with the oats, having carted part of them, and demanded payment from the lienee for that, aud also for tho men who threshed. Ho told him to look to the lienor for payment. Valle retorted that he would have some of tho oats.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 955, 20 June 1890, Page 23
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175A PECULIAR OAT CASE. New Zealand Mail, Issue 955, 20 June 1890, Page 23
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