Supreme Court.
'■ [Peb Press Association.! AUCKLAND. June 3. At the Supreme Court, B. P. O'Halloran, lately Chief Postmaster at Whangarei, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on each of five charges of embezzlement, to which he pleaded "Guilty" on Tuesday. The senteuces are to ruu concurrently. Mr Tole addressed the Court, :to induce his Honor to apply the First Offenders Probation Act. Mr Justice Conolly said he should have given a longer I sentence, as a warning to other persons in positions of trust, but that the prisoner's prospects had already baen ruined. DUNE DIN, June 3. The criminal session ia concluded. Henry Sibelin was acquitted on the charge of shooting the racing mare Disappointment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7180, 3 June 1891, Page 3
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