COUNTY COURT—AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 November 1842, Page 3

COUNTY COURT—AUCKLAND.

(From the Auckland Times.)

Tuesday, Sept. 20,-1842. The Queen v. Joseph Martin

This was one of those unusual cases, a prosecution of a native for theft. The prisoner stood charged with, shop-lifting upon the premises of Mr. benjamin, Shortland Crescent, from whence lie'was accused of stealing a cloth cap. The case broke down for want of sufficient evidence—in itself, there was little interest in the case, but the production and demeanour of several native witnesses, rendered it somewhat remarkable.

The prosecutor is a Jew, upon the jury were two gentlemen of the Hebrew nation and persuasion. These gentlemen, were immediately challenged by the prisoner himsClf, through the interpreter, on account of their supposed relationship to the prosecutor. The witnesses seemed to be fully alive to the nature of the proceedings, and the prisoner, who did not seem either much alarmed, or much embarrassed, enquired with considerable naivete, how much Utu —recompense —would be awarded to him for his unnecessary confinement and anxiety. He was then discharged. The prisoner was defended with much zeal by P. Berrey, Esq., who addressed an Auckland jury for the first time, upon the oecasion. Only last week we had to notice a maiden calendar, on the criminal side, of the Supreme Court, and we have now the pleasure to record that the above was the only case of prosecution in the County Court. Mr. Jones and Mr. Hoggard were fined five pounds each, for non-attendance as jurors. Mutiny. —The ship Duke of Richmond, on her passage out, experienced some severe weather, and lost all her top-gallant and royal masts, which obliged the captain to put into Pernambuco to refit. Before the arrival of the ship at Pernambuco, one of the crew fell overboard as he was furling the main-royal, but was saved from drowning by the exertions of the chief mate, Mr. Archibald, who threw some spars overboard, to which the man clung until the jolly-boat was lowered, and he was picked, up. While the vessel was in Pernambuco, nine of the crew bolted from the ship, but were subsequently captured by the authorities, and compelled to proceed with the vessel. When off the Island of St. Paul’s, Matthew Anderson, the seaman that was saved on the occasion alluded to, refused to go aloft to furl the royal, and, persisting in his refusal when the captain went to him, he was put in irons. On this the crew resisted the captain’s authority, filed the irons off, and Anderson threw them overboard. When the ship came into Hobson’s Bay, Anderson, and three others, named Renton, Weatherston, and Robertson, were ordered on shore, and taken before the Superintendent of Water Police, who, having heard 1 the evidence, ordered them to be sent on board, for the purpose of being sent to Sydney, to take their trial before the Vice-Admiralty Court. On Tuesday night the prisoners effected their escape in the ship’s boat, and it is supposed have gone to the String Bark Forest, where an officer has been sent to effect their capture.— Patriot.

Who is the most jiory Commander in the Harbour ? Why, Hesse, of the Amwell, to be sure, because S. makes HOT —SHOT.