RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 103, 3 April 1863, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

APRIL 2. Before J. Curling , JSsq., S.M., cf J. B. Ferguson. Joseph Johnson who was charged with selling a gun to a native, was brought up under remand, the native Paora Kaiwhatu to whom he sold it having appeared to give his evidence. The gun was produced in court by Sergt.-Major Scully who had received it from the native at the Pawhakaairo. Paora Kaiwhatu on oath said : I do not know the prisoner but have seen him. He sold me the gun produced in court. He sold it to me at the bridge at Tutaekuri on the day that Awapuni was tried in March. (The records of the court showed this to have been on the 10th March 1863.) It was on my return from Napier after the trial I met the prisoner at the bridge, it was in the evening and it was then he sold me the gun. When I met him ho had the gun in his hand. When ho saw me he said to me. Do you not want to buy a gun. I paid him £3 for the gun. Ho was quite sober when he sold me the gun and was not drunk. The prisoner was asked if he had any questions to ask the witness and merely said he did not recollect seeing the native at all. The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at the next sitting of the Supremo Court at Napier.