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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3645, 22 October 1890, Page 2

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(United .'Press Association,) it . "■ c Now Plymouth Hurdor Qm o Sontoncad, to Death. i, i. New Plymouth, October 11, 0 In the murder trial tho Judge summed' up at great; length, The 11 jury retired at 4.30 p,in to consider their verdict, and after, an hour returned to Court with a verdict of „ guilty, and a rocoramendntion to 1 mercy on account of his youth, and his belonging to an alien race, j 8 In answer to the usual formula, the if prisoner said, "May I speak?" if Tho Judge; Yes, }i Prisoner; Why am I found guilty) '' The Judge: The jury have found , v yan guilty, Tho prisoner then stated; I wasn't £ there, When all is over I will say 0 who was the person wbodid iti The i- reason I didn't speak before is because II ho is a Maori like myself. I did not speak before because I was in the ® hands of my lawyer who was defendr ing mo, and according to Native | custom I wanted to defend the man r who committed the crime. It is a t Native custom to save your own a people if possible, This individual e brought the things for which I was 1 token to gaol. According to Maori e custom, when a man is condemned !l _ for what a relative does, he is to keep ' silent, His 1111110 is (name men' tioned.) It was he who killed him, j This is all I have to Bay, He is the f man who gave me the things, and he ,f committed the crime, 1, His Honor then addressed the Y accused as follows"Mahi Kahi, ' you have been found guilty of the J crime of murder, You have had a I most careful trial and a most intelli--3 gentjuiy, and most able counsel, I 1 certainly agree with the verdict of 1 the jury, The jury have recomjj Wended you to mercy ou account of your youth, and on account of your ; being of the Nativo race, That reJ commendation shall bo sent to thoso b who have, if they think fit, the power to apt upqn it, It does not vost , with mo, I have only to administer the ncnleuoo of tho law," His Houor 1 then Henloncod tho prisoner to f (loath, 1 Maori Dlsturtanco. AuOKMND.OctoborSl. 1 In formation litis boon rocoivod that ' To Mnl|tiki, 11 wolj known fnnntic at [ To Kuili, l|ii» lipi <{icctii|K some storokoopra at that sottlomont, and : 1 ns a disturbance is fenred a body of 1 pollco, under liwpootor Brohnm, will loavo at midnight or early in the ! morning by a spooial train-for Te Kuiti, Tho forco will comprise ten J constats niitl I)otcotivos ICirby and ' llugl|cs, Captain tycssongor and some ! of tho pornitaoiit foroo lyill accompany ! tho party, who will bo met at Huntly by Inspector Emerson and othor dotachmontsof police. No particulars troyet to hand regarding tho dis- 1 turbanco. £ ■ t Island %m : j Auompc, October 21, ' . Arrived— I Toro'a,"' sqjiqqner, from c Earatonga, She brings' news that 1 the natives of Mangala Island, in the ? Hervey Group, intend to expel the 1 white traders fiom tin island, includ- } ing Donald and Edonborough's agont, 1 being inimical to "the presence of white men em, 11