(from our own correspondent.)
New Plymouth,. Friday night. Mr. Halse, the counsel 'for the Maori prisoners, will appeal to the Supreme Court on four points, which- he raised at the trial. 1. That, the .indictment was bad in law on account of the uncertainty of the description of the locality. 2. That the West Coast Settlement Act, 1880, is* ultra vires. 3. That no plan of highway, notified by the Governor under the Act, was deposited in the Survey Office, and that tHe District Court had no jurisdiction to try an offence for which the punishment may be a long one.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 48, 25 September 1880, Page 2
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