CHARGES AGAINST NATIVES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6566, 2 December 1882, Page 5

CHARGES AGAINST NATIVES.

o [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Camuuidgk, Friday. SIT the Police Court to-day a native named lori was charged with the theft of a watch ud chain, the property of William AlcMil* in. ■It appears that on Sunday evening, the 9th of November, about nine o'clock lcMillan, when near St. Andrew's Church, i r as accosted by Hori and another native, nd asked for a light for their pipes, and i'liile lighting his own Hori made a grab at is watch aud chain and bolted with them. le was arrested by Detective Brennan ou Thursday last, and identified by McMillan inong a number of natives : but as the tolen property w;is not recovered, a remand ,-as asked and granted for eight days. Lnother native named Te Ra was changed I'ith brutally assaulting his wife. Constable Jrennan received information that the romau was lying in a dying state near the ,ake, and on going there he found she h;id een there all night, being afraid to return 5 her husband's tent, and that she had been 3 kicked and beaten about the face as to snder the features unrecognisable. Several ises of this kind have occurred amongst the atives while in Cambridge, and judgment as reserved till the close of the Court in the vening.