NOT QUITE CIVILISED.
What must have been a lively scene was lately witnessed in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at w aiapu. The magistrates were Mr Campbell, R.M., Major Ropata, Renare Potae, Hotene (the late candidate for legislatorial honors), Wiki, andHirini. The prisoners under trial were charged with having illegally seized some cattle belonging to a European settler at Awanui, and sold them for a nominal sum of money. The prisoners pleaded guilty. The scene in court can be imagined from the description given in the ‘ Poverty Bay Standard —“ Order was set at defiance, and although the Magistrate and the assessors did all they could to restore it, so that the case might be judicially disposed of, they utterly failed to do so—the ruffians tenaciously persisting in insulting the Bench, and thus totally ignoring the authority of the Court. After indulging in all sorts of abusive and irrelevant talk, the accused parties, with others present, who seemed to approve of their villainous conduct, yelled and howled at the top of their voices, in derision and contempt of the Court, and then rushed out of the building in the most disorderly manner possible—thus glorying in setting justice at defiance.’'
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Evening Star, Issue 4109, 28 April 1876, Page 4
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197NOT QUITE CIVILISED. Evening Star, Issue 4109, 28 April 1876, Page 4
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