CAMBRIDGE R.M. COURT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1818, 1 March 1884, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE R.M. COURT.

Wednesday.— (Before Capt. J. G. Corbett, J.P.) CATTLE STEALING. A native named Pene Hakahaka was brought up on remand, charged with feloniously stealing one red steer, the property of one Hori Wirihana, off the run at Maungatautari. A number of witnesses were examined.— The evidence went to show that the informant, Wirihana, had cattle at Maungatautari, one of which he lost about December last. The accused and another native were known to have brought two head of cattle into Cambridge on the flth December and sold them to Mr Arnold, one of which, a red steer, wan afterwards planned by Wirihana as his property. The informant could not state when he had last seen the steer, nor whether the accused had cattle running at Maungatautari. , The informant also stated that his cattle were split in the ear, but evidence was adduced to show that many other cattle in the district to which informant could lay no claim were similarly marked. The bench, considering the whole evidence conflicting and unreliable, dismissed the case, and the accused was accordingly. Thursday.— (Before Capt. Corbett, J.P.) ANOTHER CASE OF CATTLE STEALING. A native named Te Huia was charged with having stolen a red bullock from Hori Wirihuna at Maungatautari on or about the Oth December. A nuipber of witnesses were called to prove the identity of the stolen animal. The evidence was of a conflicting and contradictory nature, and the bench, after a patient hearing, dismissed the case. In doing so, his Woiship expressed his belief that the accused was the guilty party, but the evidence being of such a nature as to defy conviction, he did not see why he should put the country to the unnecessary expense of a trial by committing accused to the Supreme Court.