R.M. COURT, TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 3

R.M. COURT, TE AWAMUTU.

Y ' Thursday.— (Before Mr H. W. Northcroft, JL R.M.) AM.KUEU MALICIOUS IXJUUV TO PBOI'EMTV. Nathaniel Hauvu was charged on the jh information of Hoi i Tauariki with having on the 7th inst. committed a breach of " The Malicious Injury to Property Act, 1867," section 13, by pulling down part of a duelling, to wit, a verandah, value £Ji, the ' ' ' ' ' property of the said Hori Tauariki, "as •' ' i for Kereama Ngawhara, Poia Hoera, and Tapeha Kainokamo, ininorH, and others > Plaintiff stated that ho had applied to tho Chief Judge of the Nativo Lands Court , for n copy of the order of the court award - ' ing the land on which the house stood 1 , but he got a reply to the effect that he could not be furnished with a copy just then. rtyrtM? therefore applied for an adjournment, in'order to procure more e\ tdence from the Land Court. Plaintiff said he sent a tele-, gram to Mr Hay, counsel for the defence, on Wednesday, that is tho day before tWe court sat, apprising him that he would --.apply for an adjournment. Mr Hay opposed the adjournment, us he . titd bsen instructed by hi* client to do so, and said that ample time had been given to obtain all necessary evidence. .">* / ' The court, however, granted the adjournment. The case therefore stands adjourned till Thursday, 3rd June. t Tho origin of the cue is as follows : — PuikeiTe Huirama bnilt a house od his „, land in,the Maungatnutari block. He dfter•oA ' Wanted to remove the house,! blit other natives claimed the land on wlficlr the house stood, and the house also,' hence the tction for malicious . injury. Pjuke. homyWj r^iuis the land as his also; but the matter, which, as far as I can leatn, is .'fciqUeition <»f boundary, will be brdught before the Native Lands Court when it $qmcn«?t sjl*— (Ovm Correspondent*.') ■/.