A Notable Aboriginal.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 122, 30 April 1883, Page 3

A Notable Aboriginal.

£Wanganui Paper.] The nasw, Poharama, who baa to stand his Jftfl^at the W«nganoi Supreme Court foruloiVawfully wounding, is somew kafcqfca noted character m >his yroy. ~As tne Chief. Justice remarked m bis; charge to the Grand Jury, Poharama ■ appears . frpm- the depositions to be; ■ a native of so excitable a disposition that some of the Witnesses considered him almpstinsane, and the evidrnee m Court below certainly tended to show that he "ran a muck" on the occasion when the alleged offences teere committed. There are passages m the past, career of Foha■ramawh'ich are not without interest. •It Moutoa he acted as a guide for the attacking Hauhaus, but became so excited that he rushed into the midst of ■the f?ay v anned only withacanoe paddle 'He fought desperately, and, m the retreat which followed, his body became 'the target for five bullets. When swim T ioing the.river to e&cape he Received ,, a sixth bulletin the lower part ot his person^which disabled him so completely that he fell a captive to the pakeHa, As, a man bearing a high reputation for daring and bravery, many will hope ■ that his fate will not after all be : ignominious ?mprispnment ; m the " whare- ■ here- here," but that the jury oi his fel r 7]pw aboriginals, which is to try him, VwUltakftvft ; m6rciful view of hia last eßcapade. .■■ . i.-; : - -■ >