Auckland Quarter Sessions.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 16, 13 October 1841, Page 3

Auckland Quarter Sessions.

[Owing to a pressure of other important and interesting matter, the following case, which came on for hearing in the above Court, was unavoidably omitted in our last number. We now insert it as one which excited considerable interest.] Patrick Sharkey, and J. M'Naughton were bronghtup for judgement, tor resisting, with fire-arms, Gilbert Dawson, Esq., P. M., the Chief Constable, and Constable Nichol, in the discharge of their duty to keep the Queen's peace. At the recommendation of the Court they withdrew their plea of Not Guilty, and threw themselves upon its mercy. The Chairman explained to them the graveness of the charge of which they were accused, and, moreover, jaid, that had it no. been that his Excellency the Governor, in the plenitude of his mercy, on the separation of this Government from that of New South Wales, had been graciously pleased to release them from confinement, and looked leniently- upon their grave offence, the Court would have had to have dealt with ihem with more rigour. He hhped, however, that this would be a warning to them in future in the guidance of their con dnct towards all her Majesty's liege subjects. Fined one shilling each, and discharged.