REMANDED FOR SENTENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10038, 3 May 1904, Page 2

REMANDED FOR SENTENCE.

SENTENCE. Rawiri te Hau and Harompna, found guilty of forgery and remanded for sentence, were brought up. Mr L. Rees, for prisoners, regretted to state that their friends had not fulfilled their promise to pay the fine and costs. He placed the matter m the hands of the Court. Prisoners worked, and would work. In shearing time they made £1 a day if they attended to their business. The Registrar stated the sum appropriated was £15, and costs £18 14s 3d, total £33 14a 3d, or £16 17s l_d each. His Honor said prisoners would have, to choose between paying what they liad cost the country or doing His Majesty's work for nothing. He was m favor of giving prisoners an opportunity to work to pay off the amount. Addressing the prisoners he informed them •that they were liable to imprisonment for life, but he could release them on probation if he saw fit. As they liad hitherto borne a good character, and this was their first offeDce, he would admit them to probation on condition that they paid the money of which they defrauded the woman and the costs they put the- country to. They would be admitted to probation for two years on the usual conditions, and they paid each £16 17s ia instalments of £2 a month, the first payment to be made on or before the expiration of the month, and the money to be first devoted to reimbursing Mrs Trimmer. His Honor said usually he did not concern himself with people who cashed forged cheques, but Mrs Trimmer did not -appear to have acted recklessly, and to have had no thought that the cheque was not a good one. He gave the prisoners to understand that if they did not pay the money as directed or behave themselves- they f would be liable to be brought up for sentence within the next two years, also if they committed another, such offence it would not be within the power of the Court to again admit them to a- like indulgence. Prisoners were then discharged. Matene Kaipau, the tohunga found guilty of manslaughter, and ordered, to' [pay a'fine of £50 and find two sureties at £100 each, or m the alternative to serve a year's imprisonment, was brought up. Mr W;, L. Rees, for prisoner, stated that the fine had been paid. The recognizances had not been found as yet. but he would complete them during the day. His Honor directed "prisoner to be brought np later, when the recognizances were completed. Mr Rees stating that he had two or three promises from persons whom he thought would be accepted by the Registrar.