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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 89, 4 June 1859, Page 5

nHHE RESIDENTS of 'POVERTY BAY I -*• here in open and public meeting resolve :— - . : 1 L „ That is evident to"'- any attentive an 4 tenprejudiced -observer, that while -tinS'ef Examination in our Resident Magistrate's Court the aborigines of this Colony So riot by any means fully comprehend the nature of an oath, and the responsibility thereunto attached. That therefore it is the opinion of this meeting that the testimony of natives should be received with the utmost caution, and no conclusions drawn therefrom, unless such testimony .tend to corroborate or elucidate the facts already given in evidence, and concerning which there can be no reasonable doubt. That giving implied credence to such aforesaid uncorroborated testimony of natives, tends to impede rather, than promote the ends of justice ; and seeing also that; in the aforementioned court, leading ques-. tions are unfairly put to witnesses when, under examination, with a view to elicit answers concurring with evidence already adduced. That it is the opinion of this meeting that for the foregoing reasons, and by conducting judicial enquiry in the manner afoiesaid not only the character of European residents in this district may be injuriously affected, but their personal liberty likewise gseatly endangered. • Wm. Scott Greene, Chairman > .; ' Turanga, Poverty Bay, „; ( . : 12th April, 1859.

. Turanga, Poverty Bay, . ( > 13th April, 1859,; '; Q.ENTLEMEN,— It was with feelings of sincere and heartfelt gratitude I received your letter of yesterday's date in which you kindly sympathise- with me on the late charge brought against me for felony — a charge that, however groundless, I shall ever pride myself in having been subjected to — as it has evinced such kindly feelings on your part, and it will prove to all men, my fellow settlers never believed, me guilty of such a scandalous transaction. ; Pray convey to the other gentlemen who so kindly came forward to express their sense of the maliciousness of the charge preferred against me, that the sense of their kindness will ever be remembered by, Gentlemen, your sincerely obliged and ever attached, fellow settler, G. E. READ. To Messrs. W. S. Greene, James Dunlop, Thomas Uren.