SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 148, 25 June 1887, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

f : :'-; (Before Mr Justice Ward.) , Yesterday (Concludecl)

Alleged Perjury.—Further evidence than that ali eady given in our yesterday's issue was given in the case of William Conrad, who was charged with perjuryl'The,alleged perjury,: it will be remembered, arose atTMongonui, before Mr H. W. Bishop, E.M.-J when -Conrad -swore; that he1 had no; knowledge of certain arrangements .made between one' Mr Williamson and certain! Maoris, also that he did not translate a cer-. tain document. —Mr Bishop.Lß. M., gave evidence to prove that Qonrad gave evidence to this effect, and Bertha Rose, -Richard Matthews, Isaac Williamson, "and David Matthews deposed to the evidence given at the case, and what had transpired at Mrs Rose's house, given in our report of Mr Bishop's evidence;-Constable Moar, who arrested the prisoner, was also called. ......'.... Xhis Jay.;.'-.'^' '. ,■.--■-. 1 joe' Tararua, the' first witness for the defence, said he was present at the'meeting at Mrs Kose's house. He knew .of no other document ' save:, the:. ..one produced, for allowing Conrad;- and others to dio- ■ £mm on • Williamson.s ■ land.— Mr Bishop was recalled after this witness, and then Tararua was again, called,-and Mr Bishop again, It^was between these witnesses proved that the translation of the document giving the right of gumdigging over Williamson's' land to certain Maoris was nob correctly, received, <_< value .received " being put, " gumdigging. —His Honorpointecf out: that this quite.altered the meaning, of the paper. -Mr Bishop exnlained that there was no .equivalent for •' value received '■'- in the Maori language ; therefore it was possible that the translator had used this term by the permission of those present." This would have finished t£e evidence.for the deface, but it was afterwards determined ' to,, : caU._ .another M Samed Hoera Marupo.-ms Honor then summed up against the prisoner when tKmy after an absence offifteen minutes, returned a verdi6t" of guilty, witha mSionio mercy: His Honor after diSe upon the enormity of his offence, then sSced liim to two years' imprisonment. The Court1 then adjourned 'till Monday, a t 10 o'clock. ■ ; ;/ ; " i ;;--.;V;:,;:V" f\ Xj