The Defendant in this case is a son of Te Hapuku, and bears a notoriously bad character, so much that no person who knows him would believe him on his oath in a case where he had any interest in telling a falsehood. At the request of Mr. Canning I applied to Te Hapuku and used every argument in my power to induce him to give up the colt, but without effect. His statement is that the mare was a very early foal of one year, and the colt a late one of the year following, and that it was born when the mother was about 18 months old, a thing generally admitted by breeders of horses, to