ALLEGED MISREPORTING.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 50, 21 June 1879, Page 2

ALLEGED MISREPORTING.

Before ohs bp.-.ioes.s of tie Police C'ou'b co.flraeiiced on 'Viiarauay the i'ipo ■•ter to tii."» jo.' iial -vaved cl'e iiidul^eaee. of the Cou.'t f o •• a fey mo neous, w.i'.le he bvoiv-ut a pe/»ona- niat.e.- aaCe ■ fjenot-.ee of the Leach. He t ea eau the report of tae oise ?eppei- v. Peu'K, he» d on toe.la^t court day, R ,u-. rsket . M \ .Y^anl to. speaK rn-io if a. po -.*eot..is.to, ov otbervcise. Li* making the req.eit. 3J . D'li'gan stared that ho haJ aUvnys mac'.e it a pa-, i *cuJ:v.- -pjv.it to deal f:v lv a.i ■ iip-ii't'tiHy wiu.i a 1 ! „i:itte/3 upoa »viiich i>e had been called upon to re..io-o, but a'thoug'i he :ig!it cxc uUb all ca c ie w:>» posi : b'.e a .risiaiie might o'.'cui* now ami then. Wi'enev6i' such had beea the ca.e l:e would be O'ly too a'x^ous to take t">c ci -lie»t opportunity of cor 'acting t'.'e c. : - or. In ihe p.dseat instajoe, however, he was qi'.ite pjv.tive she repo.l whs subsianiiallv c» :ect, juiii he woii^a.notl-ave troubled t'a^ Cou.h vre.o it ooi; that coun-.e' for the defence hr'c-.'snsiuutttet 1 that trie allege;, incor-re.-t repo-l* jg was d^ne wilfully anu mal'.ciou^iy. S )e:».k'no; f/o/n memory of notes ca'ea at the .time, he would say. that what ha) fa^lei f om the Bench at tue time, was — '•thi'.k Uiere .was no necessity for Mr War .iuvon to go i.)to : tiie matit..-.* m detn'l, }>,s the umor ab having been pad ! aM court | tiie debr was atlniVMed ; the que>-lon then r>a owed, itself c'oiru to vt^o oecame Vab'e for t;>e coaCs. and "coiiseqaently whether o>ant a Oemaai 1 . had b»en ai».ae >) v '.o.' to the s: ue of the suinvnoni." M. 1 . I>u jgrn sa ; d Mi at 'if ho had been accused of merely <83---k'lig a mUcake, be would iiot have occupied the fcivae of the Cou.fc: but when aclip^ge of w.-ltul pe.vei'sioa of faefcg wp» b:oug!it i'ga'nst him, he felt ;ca'led upon to Jake slep< to refute the utlutnay. He ht>x* been :»«poi\tedly cbaipMujeiteil iijion the MUpait.ia''f.y Qf tiie reports, and the coivectness of t'?e.pne iihr?er disoms'on had been eudor»ed ■by t.'ieae present during the hearing of the ca»e. He wouli 1 . woiUd the.vroie .ask the Bench Lo &fty wh'etliex' the -epoi't just '•end was a co:,. ect an(i impaiLial piie,"an«l wnetlier it embodied m substance hi& remarks m tae case ?, '■!■•■" ' j n e ply j,fr. Wairl saiii — "I have simply to.'. soy t!\at Ire id .the repor t at the t ; me it wftspublislied, that I considered it pe.fect.ly fair arid correct, anu represented my remtirki at the time. I bave also to endorse tKe corrdctne-is of the verbal report of tJe caacjiut given." •