THE MURDER CASE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4901, 29 June 1887, Page 3

THE MURDER CASE.

♦ ■ The murder case is still proceeding slowl tit the Supreme Court. Up to the Coui adjourning at 0.20 last ni^hfc only som half dozen witnesses had been examinee but they wero the longest. To-day, up t 4 o'clock, about a dozen more had bee dealt with. No new facts have bee brought out, and the evidence is in sul: stance the same as that given in the R.M Court, so there 13 no need to repeat it o even the names of the witnesses. Ther are still several rnoro witnesses for th prosecution, and it is said some evidenc for the defence will be called, but that i not certain. A great effort will be mad to finish to-night, even if tho Court ha* t ait very late. There ha 3 been some little difficult; with several of the native witnesses, wh have fenced with questions in their well known manner, and some of them hay assumed that stolid innocence and i«no ranee which they are ao successful at, an< which is so familiar to those who ar observant of Maori character, tt has beei troublesome to get material facts out o some of them, but on the other han< Beveral of them have comported themselve very fairly. One female witness who wa ill had to be seated while under examina tion. The lot of jurors in a Maori murder caai is not a happy one, but is subject to mucl discomfort and inconvenienco. On hi Honor asking them yesterday afternoon the jury decided to put in several hours it the evening to get through the case earlier The Court therefore sat in the evening till 9.20. Then the jurors, instead of go ing to their own homes, were put for tin night in sample rooms at the / rgyll, when beds had been made up, and this morninj before the Court opened they were ullowec to exercise themselves for an hour in thi yard of the hotel in presence of a couplt of policemen. They were also marcht-c for an airing as far aa the beach and back, Altogether their position is so uncomfortable that no one could wish for a repetition o i the experience.