PANGITIKEI.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 273, 19 December 1861, Page 3

PANGITIKEI.

Resident : Magistrate’s Court. —•' Major Ilurie, li.M., came • out on I'riday, thed.3th ; inst., ; .and Lad the following cast 1 brought before him. lie was assisted by Aperaliama, a Typae, a ikitive -us-essor. Wi Pukapuka, another .native assessor, declined sitting, on the bench from fear of oiTeiuling the Ngatiapa tribe. liopata summoned Piripi, Tepine, Piiuapa, and Kawana Ilunia for 12. the price of a cow, which they had taken from him Uy force; His case has already been, referred to in our columns.

It will be remembered tii&ts-the plaintiff’s brotlier, Hamuera, was summoned in due form in the name of King MatutaereV-tb tne. Rithanga for a debt, of IT -,. and that as he did not appear,, the King’s nuigis-. trates seized a cow ami oalt i lie joint property of plaintiff and his brother, and sold them at public Auction by warrant of fhe Tfunanga, for 5/ 10s. to pay the debt arid costs. 7'he plaiutiff’s- object was to recover;the price of the abstracted property.. Rppata swore to these facts, //ainuera gave-,evidence, to the-same, effect; a ml said that if the woman to whom lie owed the 18s had summoned hi’m.vtp tjie ; Resident Magistrate’s Court he wouhlhave paid the ‘debt. Horace Broughton sajdon oath, that jis.;C.pnsritthle he had. gone to Pakapa* katea Pa on_Satttr,day,,.]the : 3ofcli November; tor serve suinmoiises on tlic-defeiKlrtiits. He met governor Iluuiii, who on. being , asked \vhere’ the other‘defendants, were,ysaid he knew where they all were,;.-but-y wished to know \vhat was wanted with them. Deponent told him and gave him. his summons ; on which he snatched fliedthers out of his hand, arfd : ‘qVdered him out; t.ho padirectly, daring him to return‘with any

riiPKS summonses. Deponent endeavoured to get back the summonses, but iu vain. Hunia atso abiisetl the Resident Magistrate and ihterpreteri • •; - iVone of the defendants were in - court /pnd judgment was given for 10/. * ;/t may be mentioned that'7/unia (who ■ isla chief of Ngatiapa and a native assessor) came to the outside of the Court-House and sjid that so lohgas' they had a King they cpuld not answer the (Queen’s summonses. If the King ;was put down, then these summonses would be attended to.