FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18549, 9 May 1922, Page 8

FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1862.

" Invcniam viam aut faciam.” FRIDAY. MAY 9, 1862. When the Grand Jury were challenged, yesterday morning, at the opening ot the Criminal Court, before his Honor Judge Gresson, the undermentioned gentlemen did not respond on their names being culled. Messrs James Jones, William Hunter Reynolds, Charles Flack, Robert Campbell, and William Shand. . , _ The new prisoners’ dock m the Court House is of most faulty construction. Ihe witnesses are not in full view of the prisoners, and not only are the general body of the spectators entirely prevented from seeing the prisoner, but the Jury are scarcely in a , better position in, this respect..

SUPREME COURT. Thursday, May 8, 1862. (Before His Honor Judge Gresson.) His Honor Judge Gresson took his seat on the Bench at 11 o’clock. ,A fter the usual proclamation had been made by the cner of the Court, the following gentlemen were cmpannelled on the Grand Jury: A. W. Morris, merchant, Dunedin, (foreman . ~ J. T. J. Boyd, gentleman, Dunedin John Jones, merchant, Duhedm Arthur. John Burns, J.F., Mossgiel, E. ■v Taieri ~ James Rattrav, merchant, Dunedin R. S. Cantrell, gefitleman, Dunedin W W Tickle, merchant, DUnedin Thomas Norton, ship agent, Dunedin G. S. 'Wilson, mferchant, H». Kirkpatrick, merchant, Dunedin Frank Orbcll, flockowner, Dunedin Alexander Garrick, merchant, Dunedin John Cargill, merchant, Dunedin . Charles Thomas Ick, merchant, Dunedin Wm. Shand. gentleman, Dunedin. . (Mr Henry Driver, who answered to his name, was excused, he not being a .British subject.) His Honor the Judge then delivered the following address to the Grand Jury: Mr Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand JtiRY-I am surprised and gratified a*, the great improvement- which has taken place in your city since my last visit. The number and /character ot your public buildings, the gaiety and variety of your shops, the construction and repair of streets and jetties—all bear most satisfactory- testimony to the power of British energy, when stimulated by paying- goldfields. Biii, gentlemen, there is another side of the picture to which it is my duty to direct your attention,— viz to the great increase of crime, caused by'the rapid'influx, of a large mining population. Little more than three months have elapsed since the last, gaol delivery, ana yet the calendar before me exhibits 41 offences, comprising burglaries, robberies under arms, shooting, and other assaults with felonious intent, torgery, embezzlement, sheep-stealing, and larceny. There is nothing wonderful in this. It is the natural consequence of the enormous addition which the population of the Province has received from the Australian colonies. ....