NATIVE JUSTICE.
* Mr Sheehan gave the following account of a cage which came under his observation, and was adduced' by in proof of the utter uselessness of Natiye. : Assessors’ Courts. “As a matter of fact,” “ They were simply burlesques. The people who presided .in them were wholly ignorant of the law. He knew of a case which occurred in one of these Assessors’ Courts in the district of Xaipara which would give a very good ideaofthe Native notions on the sub--1 ject. He remembered being present at a trial before a Native assessor in that need hot particularise the % nature' of the crime, which was an offence against social decency—and was .asked to take a seat beside the presiding- Assessor,.who appeared, hot to take a large amount of interest in the case. He (Mr Sheehan) asked him why he did not take notice of what was going on. ' His reply was that his mind was made up l j that he was going to fine the oolprit L3O, that being the precise amount the culprit owed him. That was a casO in point; audit was not a .solitary instance. So long as they had T people these functions, so Ihng ' they have evils arising amongst ''
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Evening Star, Issue 4283, 17 November 1876, Page 4
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