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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 568, 13 April 1868, Page 2

Hew Advertisements. L V . . T FOR AUCKLAND, Calling at Poverty Bay should sufficient inducement offer. VESSEL EOS POVERTY BAY. Favorite Cutter ‘BETSY/ H- Teimmeb, master, will sail as above on •wrc'rs•srr'qr* i-v ir.n, ‘ r .?;! t-v.- tr^h/ht " ******** • *, — t - -- •» *“-e or Passage apply po lire MAsiitii, on board ; or to J. K. TATUM, Agent. Eastern Spit, 13th April, 1868,. 43*3 FOR WELLINGTON AND SOUTHERN PORTS. —The N.Z.S.N Co.’s s.s. WELLINGTON, hourly, expected to arrive from Auckland, will steam as above shortly after arrival KINROSS & Co., Agents Napier, 13th April, 1868. PANAMA MAIL SERVICE. FOR WELLINGTON & SOUTHERN PORTS. F |IHE screw steamship ‘ LORD ASHLEY,’ Captain H, WORSP, will steam as above THIS DAY, at TWO O’CLOCK. The Company do not hold themselves responsible for any alteration in time of departure occasioned by the Honorable Postmaster-General. BOUTLEDGE, KENNEDY & CO., Agents. Napier, 13th April, 1863. Superintendent’s Office, Napier, Bth April, 1868. IT is hereby notified, for general information, that the Provincial Government offices will be closed on EASTER MONDAY, the 13th April. JOSEPH RHODES, De uty-Superintendent. The Tsickeb Memorial. —The following is a copy of the memorial in favor of Walter Tricker, presented to Sir George Bowen by the Rnngitikci settlers ou the 21st March: — fo his Excellency S)r George Fergusson Bowen, G.CM.G., Governor and Commande-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand and Its dependencies. This humble memorial of the undersigned settlers of Eangltlkel, in the Province of Wellington, (and the surrounding districts, sheweth that, in the month of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, one Walter Tricker, formerly of Bangitikel aforesaid, was tried in Wellington for the murder of one Eobert Stiliingfleet Rayuer, formerly of the same place, settlor, and that the •aid Waiter Tricker was convicted of the said murder, and sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, which was afterwards commuted to imprisonment for life. That the said Walter Tricker was convicted almost exclusively on the direct evidence of a halfcaste boy named Hamilton, who swore that he saw the murder committed in open day, at ten o’clock in the morning, within a few yards of a public main road. The same boy had a few weeks before on the coroner's inquest been examined and cross-examined fop several hours, and on that Occasion he most positively denied all knowledge of the murder, and though most severely pressed In cross-examination ho persisted in a story altogether different from, and inconsistent with, the account he gave in the Supreme Court, How in the interval between the Coroner's Inquest and the Supreme Court a reward of several hundred pounds was offered for the defection of the murderer, and it was not till this was offered that Hamilton came forward with the statement Which led to Tricker’s conviction. Such statement was first made immediately after an interview between Hamilton and a native, who subsequently claimed and obtained the above reward on the ground of having brought Hamilton’s evidence to light, and which interview js Understood to have taken place immediately after the publication of the offer of the reward. The story told by the said boy was of the most Improbable odaraoter, and such as it was it was met by an alibi on the part of Tricker, which in the opinion of your memorialists, thoroughly acquainted with the country, was of a most convincing character. In fact they are thoroughly satisfled that even if Tricker committed the murder it must have been under entirely different circumstances, and at an entirely different time from those stated by Hamilton, and that it is muct more probable that it was not committed bj Tricker at all than that it was committed in the way that Hamilton says it was. Tricker was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court, but the advisers of Governor Sir Geo. Grey jio fewer than four of whom were members of tb> legal profession, considered the case so doubtfn that they refused to advise his Excellency to al low the sentence to be carried into execution—i refusal in which Sir George Grey is said to havi thoroughly concurred. The sentence was commuted. Tricker is uov undergoing imprisonment for life. Your memo rialists submit that such a course is without pre cedent, and that ho case can be cited where : British subject has been deprived of his libert; for life under such circumstances; that is to say under a sentence commuted for no other reasoi than beepute the Executive Government did no believe the evidence on which the prisoner wa dpnedor executed. ~ tricker was tried by a jury at Wellington, most if not all. of whom were unacquainted with th Country in which the murder was committed, oi the peculiarities of which much of the force o Triekep’s alibi rests. Tour memorialists are con vinced that if a commissiou, with power to tak evidence on oath, were appointed m investiirat, the subject on the spot where the transaction oc purred, it would be made apparent that a cas exists for the further exercise of the prerogativ of mercy in your Excellency, by conferring a fre pardon on Tricker, and releasing him from a life long imprisonment, fatal to himself, and ruir.su his Wife aud family. Tour mem rialists earnestly pray that your Ex cellency will be pleased to issue such a commi' slon, tad pledge themselves to give every asntancc towards the fullest and most comples ruqinry into all th* Hr<*v.Tn?t!*2ce*: o*’ tu not , n Signed.—K Hammond, John M’Eeth, Georg Roberts, Henry Lyon, Henry Death,,Tame Gumming, John Jordan, Henry Andersm fad 306 other*.