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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 13, 18 July 1848, Page 2

We have a few words to say with regard to the Maori translation of the trial of Joseph Burns, which was completed in the Anglo-Maori Warder last week, and republished in the Native Journal. The task was found to be one of extreme difficulty throughout; more particularly with regard torendering]the Attorney Gent'ial's address to the jury- Where the ideas that must be expressed are new to the language, where the meaning is foiced, as it were, into evesy sentence, idiomatic or elegant writing becomes impossible; nothing inoie can be reqimed, 0/ expected than that it should be grammatical, and intelligible. One objection to the form m , which the accounts given we were awareof from the beginning; that although the cuuiseof proceeding in a court of justice, the succession of a, witnesses, and so forth, be depicted to aa Eng- \ lish reader with quite sufficient clearness by the common form of a newspaper report, it by no means follows that it should he equally intelligible tu a Native. It umi Id have been impossible, however, to have found room for the necessary explanations in the columns ol the K.iiWhakamataara, within which it na* found difficult to compress even the simple account of the trial itself.