POLICE COURT.-Monday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 111, 22 March 1864, Page 4

POLICE COURT.-Monday.

["Hel'm-e Tlws. Esi].. K. .M.J HULTAI, ASSAULT O.N A MAOIiI. Sanniel Hosh, a stockman lately arrived, was charged by K«i-ni<;t;i, a Maori, with brutally a.-sault- j iiifC him 011 .Saturday morning laat, in liuewi-struet. \ Prisoner pleaded iiot guilty. | Jlr. Puckoy attended a.s interpreter. ; Keremeta, sworn, deposed :—1 am an aboriginal native residing at Coromandel. Cln Saturday last I ' was in Auckland selling peaches. 1 saw thu defend- i ant on .Saturday, near the Hour mill in Queen-slrect i I was coming up from the wharf with two kils ~f j peaches, defendant was standing in tin; street, and snaicbed f-ome peache.-. out of my basket. I asked ' him lor jiayment, when lie struck me with his list in ■ the face. I again asked him for the money, and delendant then kicked the other basket of peaches over 1 putting some of them into his trousers pocket l' again asked Inn, for payment, when he struck me j a{..ain with his list, and I then struck defendant, who ' said that was all the payment I should get J picked up the peaches to go away, when defendant pursued me, and struck me on the back of the neck, the blow knocking me down, he also struck me in the face and tore my clothe?. Mr. (1. S. Craliam then interfered and t'ok 1110 into his house. That was all that occurred. ' ! Defendant had no questions to ask. I Mr. U. S. Graham, sworn, Mated :_ [ am a iner- i chant residing in Auckland. On Saturday morning j la.-t I saw the plaintiff and defendant in Quecii-strceL j I saw the native's peaches capsized over the street, j but did not know who did it. The plaintiir seized' ' lofemdant by tho wrist, when prisoner struck him, : I then rushed between them to separate them. After ! ;hat defendant followed the native, and knocked him ■ lown on tho ground, when I again interfered and I ook tho native into my store. I did not bco the de- ; endaut with any peaches. By prisoner:—I did not see the native ionr voiir hirt. " I Captain W. C. Da'dy, deposed :—I am a merchant ( ml Justice of tho Peace, residing ia Auckland. On i aturday juorniiig last I ranv the jilai'.uilf and dc- j siidant in (/ueeu-streer. -.v.-js dr,i«n ' ) a disturbance oppositeThori;;on > .'-iioitl i 'ii>i! i-'inh's I i ill. Tho first tiling I saw V;v-3 pi (he | ' •li-iidant down. IT,»>i, h!/ ; :V--*i^.(:■.-.• .■ ■ V ■" ■!.,. \ ' i(J. ),;»„; .. V r-, )•,.)„.„,«!r;.!-- . v,<;. :■ :„■■.,. ;. ; . ~ , : ,

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