SUPREME COURT.
casBOKN® By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Sept. 17. ■An interesting ciicmnstanoe at tho trial of Love Tufce te Raaigi Home, remanded from Napier for trjaj by a Maori jury at Gisborne.for an offence agoing; a Native girl under W, was msmd'e explanation why lie ran away to Wt»katane, where he was arrested by order pf the Court. Accused said on arrive! in Gisborne ihe found ihe Maori people here np figainst hiip, because of a Native fend in the early days between the local tribe and the Urewcr&s, to whom ho belonged. On account of his absence, the Maori jury was dismissed, and tihe Cotjrt ordered a trial by a European jury, who found Mm guilty, but recommended him to leniency. Prisoner, was' sentenced to two and a-half (veals' imprisonment. Justice Hosking said there was no real ground for tfce duggastiot) that the loeal Maoris would not have done their W the jurors were hpyafti#!. ! In djvorce, a decree nisi was granted iji the case of Blleji &<joarthy (Gjia- 1 borne) v. Thomas McCarthy, soldier, 8aJ?*oa, on the gponnds of desert i«i«
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1918, Page 4
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183SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1918, Page 4
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