RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Wellington, March 19, 1849.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 298, 7 April 1849, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Wellington, March 19, 1849.

Before Hbniiy St. Hill, E*qu r <•, H.M* Richard Whitens, alias FPhitehnUK, waatlnrgodbr Willia u MM 1 1 tin, a piivalc of Police, witii having ttoleu from the Port ol Auutlaiid a certain tsiborucr boai known us the Comfort, the projiorty of Mue Andrew Rooncy. Art/übald JFhtwn Shand, acting landing \va\ter of the Ui^tiu^, proved that tie prisoner arnwd in the Imrbour of Fort Nicholson ou the 13ih iustuul, ia cl»ar^e of a schoouer which he fejnoicnted to ba the llupcy and iliat the prisoner was Uiuble to produce the necessary papers required by the Customs. Andiew Aitkur, of I'auranga, Poverty B&y, proved the arrival of the prisoner at Poveityßay, somethno iv the begnnaog ot Febkiiary last, ia charge of the tdisci in question, that the prisouer represented the vessel lo be tlie Hope of Auckland* and that he bud been directed by the owaai to proccid ap Uic CWt iv tourdt

&f freight. The witneis chartered the teisel to conrey § : arero to Wellington. William Champion, master of ihe schooner Undine, r-Ane distinctly that the schooner called Hope, in the 'i pfUour, wa« the larae he had kuowti in Auckland as tii» r omfort, James Stuait,sf>Mn*n of the Undine, corroborated the testimony of thr last witnesi. The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next criminal sitting* of the Supreme Court, to be holden at Wellington.