Letters and Memoranda in connection with matter of horse. Canning v. Whakatomo. note: For the Native Sec. TGB June 1 To His Excellency, Thos. Gore Brown C.B., Governor in Chief New Zealand The humble petition of John Davis Canning of Napier, Sheep Farmer, sheweth, that whereas in the month of October 1856, a case was tried in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Napier, your Petitioner being Plantiff, and a native named "Te Eakatomo" the defendant (copies of the depositions in which case are hereunto annexed) for the recovery of a Horse said to be illegally detained by "Te Wakatomo", on which occasion the horse in question was decided to be the property of the Plantiff, and whereas "Te Wakatomo" in spite of remonstrances made to him by G.S. Cooper Esqre, to whom your Petitioner has applied for redress in the absence of