Tut: hearing of tho charts against Marl; I Clcttr. this iiioi'niii;.* hi!fore i'-l-ssrs _h 11, j Moody 'and J. ilordou, ju.---tie_s. Mr ! Hudson '.Villi'i:-:.-'!)!) coti-lccuM t ho prose cution, iu\d Mr W. Mahouey appeared on J ..half ot the accused. iV'soner waa oharg.d with having ini-v. appropriated £52 lUs on the l_rh December, , i-Y.o ; £22 15.i on the 2nd oii.il.-iy, 1G37 ; j and t'll3 I oh ..ii the 14 th March, 1887. j ' GYraui O'Ha-lloran deposed to paying £52 IC'-i to secured on tho 12th December, 1806. it wan ii quarter's interest due upon a movt-rajre since paid nit. C. V, Buddie, solicitor, deposed to pay ing £22 15s to aoeased on the 2nd of May, 18K6. Uobci't Sinclair Allan, accountant at T. and S. Morrin and Company's, deposed fco paying. accused £113 15s on the 14th of March, 1857, being intores.due upon a mortgage Win. 0. Woodhouse, ledger-keeper at the ißank of Yew Zealand, dope sad co tho ! cheque £113 15s having been cashed on tho j 15th March, 1387. Wm. Gould Churchward, ledger-keeper |;-.: the Colonial Bank, deposed liias about j tho Pith December, 1886, accused paid in a i cheque for £52 10s. On the 2nd of May, 1.37, a cheque for £22 15 i was also paid in to accused's private account. • William Henry Churton, the accountant who examined the books of tho treasurer of bhe Orphan Home, Parnell, deposed thab the sums mentioned a? paid to the accused did not appear in the accounts as credited to the Home. Those cheques appeared as paid to his private account. Prisoner r-c-sorv.d his defence. Mark Rawlings was next charged with having embezzled ,'.20 4s, £15, and £15, tho moneys of the Parnell Orphan Homo. H. N. Garland, secretary of the Charitable) Aid Board, deposed to having on the 15th of February, 1.80, paid to the accused the sum of £15 for the children in' the Home- On the l.fch of March witness also paid accused a similar sum of £15, Witness! produced the receipts. W.'.G. Churchward deposed to the two cheques for £15 each having been paid into tho prisoner's private account at the Colonial Bank. Mrs Jane Anderson deposed thab she resided at Waikomiti with her hus band. ilnv sister-in-law, Mrs Donnelly, had three children in the Or phan Home. 