ALLEGED INTERFERENCE.
NATIVE FISHERIES GASE. JUDGE MAY DISCHARGE JURY. [•BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS association.] GISBORNE, Saturday. The Supreme Court was occupied yesterday and to-day hearing a claim for £50u0 damages, made by several natives, against David Cameron,. J. R. Murphy, and D. Hair, for trespass by draining the Repongacro Lake, thus affecting the Maori eel fisheries. The case is being heard by a mixed jury of natives and Europeans. When the case was resumed this morning counsel for defendants complained that some Maori members of the jury had been conferring with the natives interested, who had endeavoured to influence them. The Court took evidence on the subject of this alleged interference. Later His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman stated that he would adjourn the trial till Monday. His present opinion was that the statements of witnesses called by Mr. Burnard, counsel for defendants, had not. been answered, and he would probably be impelled to discharge the jury without any reflection being made on any individual juror.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17337, 8 December 1919, Page 6
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163ALLEGED INTERFERENCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17337, 8 December 1919, Page 6
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