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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 679, 16 January 1883, Page 3

sirange mark on the forehead. The mother was a reddish roan. She weaned it, and waa quite sure of its identity. Jules Lelievre, sworn, said : I remember Mr G. Kearney having a roan cow in a Dnddock 15 months ago. She had a calf in my father's paddock. It was a heifer calf, and we kept it with the rest about a fortnight, and then Kearney took it to his own place, where Mr Miles lives, close to my father's iron gate. The calf used to come with others to the gate. It was there two or three months. I saw the calf in my brother's paddock lately. It came from Paua Bay. 1 saw it come as I was working with James Landergan on the Purple Peak road. I have seen thousands of calvea, but I never saw one marked like this one. By police : I looked at the calf particularly when I saw it on the Purple Peak road, to see if it was earmarked. I fed the calf myself very often when it was in our paddock. The calf was in pretty fair condition for the winter when I saw it coming'in from Paua Bay. This concluded the evidence. __ , The Bench said they should at once dismiss the case, as it was merely a case of disputed ownership, and there was not the least evidence of any felonious intent whatever. Defendant left the Court without the smallest stain on his character. The police asked who was to have the ca,f - The Bench said that there was a difficulty in settling the ownership, but on the whole the weight of evidence seemed in favor of George Kearney, and they would make an order foi him to get the calf. The Court then adjourned.