SUPREME COURT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(Per Press AssociatiQtJ.l j NEW PLYMOUTH, this day/ ! At the Supreme Court yesterday,^ before Mr Justice Sim, a Maori, Te Kira, was found ?{ # $} aa c$ c °^ theft. Edward Saunders -was iound guilty of attempted theft from_ the person at Hawera. races, and W. Ryan was found guilty of ..theft- from, „the ; p.erson. All. were r,emande4 %' seiitence till to-day. •; C, J...Lvims ( den 7; j-anr., charged >wlth in-decentjassau?^-,"failed tP s^Vrp,"l d, ?r to ,ti;s bail, and..a v warran.t for ljia .arr|?st was issued- ; - In diyoVce, .a. decre^ njsi was granted m lolin N, Hamblyn v. . lm\n U." Haniblyn (husband's petition). , : , '■;, : -iNApIER, this day. At the,, Supreme '.Coiiirt yesterday, David -, Ellis,, charged, witU Paterson and; Mppsman,,byi. selling certain . articles coverpd. b^y .hill of.^sale, Avas ac- ' quitted. Neil,!^Campbell,,, charged with assaulting a Maori, causing actual bodily ' harm was found guilty "of common , assault, and remanded till , Friday for a' report from- .the- probation officer.

- Niel Campbell, a young mar*, was charged with' assaulting a, Native pained Heu Heu at Wdiinawa. j Mr Corrtford .'in opening ;. the. case pointed out that tlie 'accused was, ' amongst others,, at, the Hanipd.en apprts, ' arid; .it apneared that /some pßfsso*ns ' lixjfl taken nl6%liq'*aoE.%# gppd. .fov therny, On 'the return jrdnr. tlie sports on Boxing Daj, the a'dcnsed- dame up .with the natives ."and assaulted them with a stirrup, "r6n ; .', He first struck one Davis Rangi and* 'then, struck Heu, knocking him off his .horse., ... ,_ /' , j ; jDavis Raiigi was first put m the box. j He said he had been at the sports and left on, the tlie rpad.to O.riepu with 'Heu ' Heu, Ngajiiti flrid Barrett. ;, Campbell caught up to them .on/ ho-rsej^ack,- asked witness where he 'was gom**? and then., struck him. He fell off his horse insen- j sible. A doctor, had atjehded h'ni apd I he suffered, much iiain. ■•■■.-.>■■• • i. ! - Dr Edward /.lames 15ec"r said h.e saw Heu Heu lying under* the-. manuka scrub abo,ut one. and a half-miles from Tikikinp.j. The .nktjve was Veiy much' 'cßl-1 lapsed frpm. loss pf . blood /by a; woinid on .the "right .*' temple: ''*■• The : "lxnie ; was exposed andondei'ited .and one of the>' arteries was out through". He also had a large bruise on the back of the head, and suffered pain m his side. - The. native remained under, Ins ioare 'fori about one month. There.; were, no signs ;of driiik upon the nativp. ... -■'., ... ■:+.* ..,, .' ' .