2f A ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XI. 
haeata to bail at the next court. Upon that occasion 
there was a full bench of Magistrates ; and the grounds 
taken by Mr. Murphy and Mr. White, and ac- 
quiesced in by the Bench, for declining to issue their 
warrant, were, that as the party prosecuting had ap- 
plied in the first instance to the Crown Prosecutor for 
a bill of indictment, and he upon hearing the evidence 
had found a true bill, the Judge of the Court before 
whom the case would ultimately be tried was the 
proper authority to apply to for a bench warrant. The 
next step was the application made by Mr. Brewer to 
the Judge of the Supreme Court. 
Judge Martin reserved this as well as several of the 
civil cases for further consideration ; pursued his 
circuit to Nelson and New Plymouth, which was con- 
cluded by the end of November ; and then met the 
Bishop at Waikanae, and set oflF overland, with the 
cases in his pocket or sent round by sea, to Auckland. 
The party ascended the ManawatUy crossed the plain 
of the three rivers seen by Mr. Kettle, descended the 
Hauriri to Hawke's Bay, and then proceeded all round 
the coast to the capital. When his Honour got to 
Auckland is not accurately known ; but, to the great 
inconvenience of the parties concerned in the civil 
actions, the decisions on the reserved cases did not reach 
Wellington until March 1843, five months after their 
being pleaded in the Court at Wellington. Governor, 
Commissioner of Land Claims, and Judge, all seemed 
equally bent on causing the Cook's Strait settlements 
to wither from neglect and delay. 
In the following words did Judge Martin, after such 
ample consideration, at length shrink from hazarding 
an opinion on the most important case that had been 
brought under his notice : — 
"The Queen v. RangihaecUa. — This is a motion for 
