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| THE MAORI MESSENGER. TE KARERE MAORI. VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, FEBRUARY 29, 1856. AKARANA. PEPUERE 29, 1856. [No. 2. According to promise, we give the Trial of Charles Marsden, for the murder of the native woman Kerara, at full, in the present number of the Maori Messenger, Every available means, it will thus be seen, have been employed to instruct the native mind relative to the humane, the anxious- and the equitable dispensation of British Laws. In our previous number, great pains were taken io acquaint the native reader with the primary and essential objects of a Coroner's Inquest. And no less care was manifested, by the Queen's Chief Justice in New Zealand, to explain the studious regard that is had tor the protection of the innocent and the punish- ment of the guilty. It is one of the wise and salutary princi- ples of English law, that no man is held to be guilty of a crime, until he has been pro- nounced to be so by the verdict of a Jury of his fellows . Were it not for this prudent caution, inno- cent men against whom the strongest ap- I tenei wahi ka anga matou ki te whaka- rite i ta matou kupu i mea ra kia tuhia nga korero mo te whakawakanga o Hare Ma- tenga mo tana patu kohuru i taua wahine Maori i a Kerara. Ko konei whakahaerea katoatia ai aua korero e tenei Karere Maori. He mea ra hoki kei mahue tenei mea te ata whakaako marie i nga tangata Maori ki nga tikanga pai o nga Ture o Ingarangi. He ture pai rawa hoki, he Atawhai-tangata, be ata whakarite marie. he tino tika hoki. I to mua ake Karere i aronui te whakaaro ki te whaka mohio i nga hoa tangata maori ki nga tino putake tikanga o te Whakawa a te Korona. A, i pera ano hoki te aronui o to te Kuini tino Kai whakarite whakawa i Niu Tireni ki te whaka atu-atu i enei tikanga erua o te Ture, ara te tiaki i te tangata harakore. me te whiu i te tangata hara. Kotahi tenei tikanga marama, tikanga whakaora o te Ture o Ingarangi, koia tenei, e kore rawa e kiia noatia tetahi tangata e he ra ana, kia matua puta te Kipono a te Huuri, are, a etahi tangata tekau ma rua e rite ana ki a ia. Me kaua tenei tikanga whakaaro nui, tera e mate hara kore etahi tangata he ahua ra ia no te hara ki te titiro o te rau o te tangata, kiia tonutia iho he hara ano, kaore, tera ke te tikanga mehemea e ata kimihia marietia ana, tena, mahia ohatatatia ana e ie whakaaro o te tini tangata, na te whakata- |