AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4381, 18 January 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. ■~ Tfae~ ~ejectmaiit!- case ■ at • Cambridge deserves more than a passing attention. Into the legal aspect of the affair, I have no intention of entering, but desire to draw especial attention to the inflexible rectitude of Resident Magistrate Northcroft. Very great pressure on this, as on other occasions, has been used iv the vain hope to make him swerre from the path of duty. Men >of mark, -wealth* and j influence, have ell tried their best to make him dispense unequal justice, without yfcvail,—he strictly meting out the law to. |9ie rich and the poor alike, and hence Slen in the Waikato go to his Court with cbnfidence. The appointment is now. generally maintained to have been a most happy one. In the instance of the ejectment of natives from land—Walker end Grice claimed to own them— the ejectors, men of wealth and in* flience, have been counselled as to what steps they should take, by a well known M.H.8.. .The ejectment, according to native testimony, was made with circumstances of unparalelled indecency, and the brutality of the mode in which the Maori j women were made nude, and then forcibly removed from the land, requires? too coarse language to be intelligible. The enquiry, which has occupied many weeks, was concluded yesterday, when 19 persons were committed "for trial at the Supreme Court. It appears a Mr Wells was also on the Bench with the EM,, and the J.Pr objected to the prisoners being committed for trial. Mr A. Mac Donald, of Palmers ton, is said to be the actual proseoutor. ' : A Heavy SentenceOlson, for attempting to murder'his. wife, has been sentenced to fourteen' years.

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