Considerable amusement waa caused; in Court yesterday morning (says the -Thames Advertiser, Feb. 9) during the hearing of the charge against Sheridan for shooting a person named M'Kenna at Ohinemuri. The prose-, cutor, "being examined by Mr Dodd, refused to admit his nationality. The counsel asked whether he was a Hotentot or a French Canadian, to which he raplied he was f'-nather," but; still persisted in not admitting, his nationality. When ordered at length by the Court to answer; the question, he said he had come from the South American. States — ■ M'Kenna is now able to get about- agair^ and has. been discharged from the hospital,!
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 639, 22 February 1870, Page 2
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