HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 2

HAWERA.

(FROM OL'U OWK COHUKSI'ONDENT.) January 15. Ma.ioii Turk arrived hero on Friday last, having travelled from 'i’arauaki via tlie Mountain track, in order to lake over the charge oil the Armed Constabulary. As a solitcry member of the community, 1 do not believe in reducing the force hereabouts, but 1 suppose that the funds at the disposal of the Government will not admit of it being kept up to the usual standard. Captain Wilson has also taken up hi t residence in those parks, and will no doubt deal with the unlives with the same spirit that he was won’t to display while stationed at Opnnake. Alaj )f Turner took his seat on the Bench for the last time in Ids capacity as U.M. on Saturday last. His general urbanity suavity of manner, and kindness of disposition, wili be greatly missed by those who were accustomed to hold intercourse with him in private life. As an officer of the Constabulary he was universally liked and. respected by those who served under him. Bike Cincinatns of old, he intends to take to the plonedi,” and to cultivate the arts which Horace and Virgil wrote of in the “Odes” and _ “ Gorgics.” Major Turner may cany with him in private life the satisfaction of knowing that many will lose in him a kind and considerate ollicer, a good friend, an 1 a genial gentleman. The most important case which came on for hearing before tlie Court on Saturday, was one in width a native accused Mr G. Bayly of having unlawfully in his possession a horse branded KAK. After a groat deal of contradictory evidence, it was elicited that Ngahina sold the horse to Pope, who sold it again to Mr Brett (of Kctcmarae), who in turn sold it to Constable Cowan, who again sold it to Mr Bayly. The case was ultimately adjourned to next Court day, in order to obtain fresh evidence.

The horse-stealing case which arose out of the fracas which occurred on the other side of the Waingongoro Ilivcr sonic time since, also came on for hcaaing. As no interpreter could be obtained, capable of writing down the evidence in the German and English lanuuages, the case had to bo adjourned. In the ease of Winks v. certain others, the prosecutor desired the cases to be withdrawn. In the case of T. Espagne v. Kuhana, the defendant was charged with being drunk and disorderly on the premises of plaintiff, and was lined Tl, or seven clays imprisonment. Two natives (one of each sex), for being drunk ami disorderly, forfeited their bail. For engaging in the pugilistic art at the sports ground on New Year’s Gay, three persons were brought before the Bench, and mulcted in the customary fine. Other minor cases occupied the rcmaiuidg time of the Bench, in two or three of which Mr 11. E. Adams appeared for the defendants. Mr James acted as Clerk of the Court during the da}’. In a former letter, I brought under the notice of the Hawcra residents, the desirability of having a lock-up here. The necessity for the erection of a building of this description was brought forward in one of the native cases above alluded to, where the woman who had been taken up for drunkenness was not locked up on account of the police having no building wherein they could have given her secure lodgings for the time being - . It is quite time that these tilings should he looked into. Is Major Atkinson ever going to do anything for this district? Why should the old blockhouse be used as a courthouse, when the requirements of the district demand a more extensive building, togetuer with additional accommodation ? This township is so replete with lively rumours of one sort or another, that 1 must perforce give you the substance of the last on (lit. A pretty widow, whose husband has been dead several years, received a beautiful bouquet the other other day. The gentleman who sent it has been flying round her with an earnestness worthy of a storekeeper’s clerk, and it was with extra delight that he saw her pass his store that evening with the boncpiet of flowers in her hand. “ 1 am so pleased to see you with them,” said he, and a thousand little Cupids dimpled in his smile. “Yes,” she replied, “it was very kind of you. I always knew yon liked him. I am taking them to his grave.”