The New Zealand Herald. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1864. THE SUPREME COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 112, 23 March 1864, Page 3

The New Zealand Herald.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1864. THE SUPREME COURT.

SPECTRMUE, AOE.NDO. Giro CTorj- man thino eru*. but row thy volro: Take each man's censuro, but raorvc tby Judpnent. Tins nbty.-e a n —To thine ownsclf)x) tnio; -And it nmst follow. as tlio night the (lay, Thou canst not then bo faLie to any man."

\ mtkrdat tho Criminal Session of the. Supreme Court which had boen postponed from the first of the month, on account of the severe indisposition of the r('sported Chief Justice, Sir O. A. Arney, was opened by Mr. Justice Johnston, who has arrived from the South for that purpose. The calendar is a heavy one, and onlv three ca».\s were disposed of yesterday. It haj been agreed that the trials of the natives, Runrangi. for the murder of Mis. Thompson and her daughter; Tangatawe.re Twitia, for the murder of Dromgoold, ami that of the rebel " recruitiug sergeants" nt Nelson shall be postponed until the intter end of thu session. The trial of the native accused of the murder of another native at the liny of Islands will be taken at an early date. Mr. Justice Johnston, during a lapse in the proceedings which occurred from a delay caused bv the I.' rand Jury having, up to that time, returned no true bill against any prisoner, notified that on Saturday afternoon next, he should sit in Chambers for the convenience of those who had civil suits to prefer, or for the hearing of eases iu bankruptcy.

During tiio calling over of the Lames of (licjury. men, his Honor commented on th,. simmllucm of the number summoned, and .-.ceuied wiiifuliat perplexed nt many of tin- ordinary n.-.|,, U is of the Court, asserting tliat they we>v dilferent to those he had pursued iu the South, ami appeared iinxloue to introduce many (.Iterations. IJuxincss perhaps «ould be the more advanced, and the public advantage better i-erved by an adhesion to the ordinary rules of the Court, which, it may also be remembered, have been laid down by the Chief Justice himself, one of the most piuuitftking. careful Judges, whom it has been the good lot of Auck'a id to have had appointed to the pos-t. There is urn; pr.ictice ui'Sir (1. A. Avnvy which we have alwayn admired, that of carefully reading over to the jury, and aimlisiiis; for tlu-ir instruction, the evidence.-, of the several ami the remarivs of counsel, before scnding them to consider their verdict. Such a collide i> neccstavy with most petty juries. True bills weru iound ye-n-y.iny against Akcronn, C. Fischer, Tangaiauarc Uviiia, T. K. Abraham. I Samuel .Mi.-hacl .M.-lJuirc, Kicluml .i:iun-;, Kilcn I'lt/.gciaid, \\". A. .Moore, and Creor-e liroad-