The trial of Reginald Hopkins on a charge of having appropriated moneys belonging to the Mutual Store, having ended in his conviction, this unhappy young mau was brought up on the 26th ult. at the Supreme Court fur sentence. The Acting Chief Justice, in passing sentence, commented severely on the betrayal of trust volved, the prisoner having been managing partner, and also on the methods of business adopted, namely, the intended bribery of heads of departments. He then sentenced the prisoner to eighteen months' lived Inbour om each of the counts, to run concurrently. Hopkins, who is the son of the former agent of the Scottish Oriental Steamship Ca. was born in the Far East, but sent to innd to be educated. He was well brought up, and his lapse from the paths of virtue is the more surprising.
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