TRIAL OF RUA
A RECORD F(9l NEW 'ZEALAND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, July 13. Tho liua trial entered its.thirtieth day to-day. At the outset Judgo : Chapman said': "Weil,'gentlemen, I think lvoiuay say that wo have established ■ a :record so far as a trial in New Zealand'is concerned. I once had a similar case which lasted 28 days, but I don't know: of a. longer I can only once again express my. sympathy with you. We are a band'of martyrs, and should "remain' such for 'the rest of our lives." (Smile's in the jury box.) Tho Crown' Prosecutor: I hope we may share. in tho sympathy, your Honour. , (Laughter.) - , , ' ' ■His Honour (to the jury): "All we can say, gentleinon, is that tho end is in sight, but we are not there tcl." • Counsol for. the defence: "I may say •that I did'my best to prevent the: case from coming to Auckland." His Honour: "I don't know that it' would have been any better for the country to have submittod the c3.se to a company of dairy "farmers. . "X don't know what the cows would have thought." Sir. London: "The cows are on strike until August." • Eua continued 'his evidence, but owing to haemorrhage of thenose .an adjournment was necessary, and later, Rua again suffering from the trouble., .the' case was adjourned until to-morrow. ' _ ■ During his,evidence the "prophet" tol<l of events at Wai-iti on February 12, the occasion of the alleged uttering. of ■ seditious language. He said ho wanted the ' polico to take the initiative, and quietly holding out his hands told them tp arrest him.. Hi! did not say anything in criticism of Mr. Dyer, S.M. Later, Eua took up his narrative at the point where the Hon. A. Ngata, as Parliamentary representative for the Eastern Maoris, visited Manngapohatu. Prisoner told ■ Mr. Ngata-that the rumours of his fortifications, of. his cannons, and of his machine-guns were' all<lies. In.conneci tiou with the .1911 and 1915 "sly-grog" charges, lie had .already paid a fine of £103, and served a sentence of three months in Auckland Gaol. Mr. Ngata said: "Stay where you are. will carry your papers to Wellington, and have a further scrutiny /nade, and whatever the result I will communicate with you." Mr. Ngata wrote to him on March 13, but 'the letter did not contain a reference to the .fine of jSIO3, which he had paid. '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19160714.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2823, 14 July 1916, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
396TRIAL OF RUA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2823, 14 July 1916, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.