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evident the deceased could not have carried them himself, and the sergeant swore that the body seemed as if it had been placed where it was found. There were no marks as if the deceased had died there. The theory of the prosecution was that McCarthy, when he struck the man op the Thursday evening, did not intend to kill him, nor indeed to injure him seriously ; but that, when he found he had injured him, and the man could not walk, he first carted him to where the deceased was first seen on the Friday morning, thinking he would be able to move away by-and-by, but that afterwards, when he found he was dying, he shifted him down to the cross-roads, a mile and a half away from his house, to avoid suspicion. It cannot be questioned but the deceased received the injuries from which he died on the Thursday night. He was heard at midnight on that night either singing or crying outside McCarthy's gate, and that he was four hours before that, according to McCarthy's own showing, at his (McCarthy's) house. Any person who knows the neighbourhood cannot suppose that the deceased was run over or met with any accident outside McCarthy's gate. The road is quite level, on the open plain, and only leads to McCarthy's and to one more house, Davis's, about a mile further down. McCarthy knew, from his own showing, that from midnight on the Thursday night up to the time he went to Oamaru on the Saturday the deceased was lying on the open road near to his place, yet he never informed the police nor assisted him further than to give him a few scones and a little meat on the Friday afternoon; and when the deceased was found a mile away from where he was first seen on Friday morning this food was found lying beside the body. There was good reason for McCarthy not informing the police: he knew if he did that all the facts which came out at the inquest would come to light and tell against him. He makes four charges against the police—one for suppressing the fact that on the day the deceased was found an Indian hawker called at Davis's, carrying a stick, which may have been used to inflict the injuries. Detective Livingstone states that to his knowledge the police were not informed of this prior to the inquest, and that the hawker was only thought to have gone by there a day or two after the deceased was supposed to have received the injuries. He further states that Davis said that the hawker came along the beach, and not by the road where the deceased was lying;- and-that the hawker himself, whom he knows, said he came by the beach and not by the road. Davis, it appears, does not state positively the day he saw the hawker. For my own part, I can only say that I never heard of this hawker until I read McCarthy's letter. The second complaint is of the manner in which Detective Livingstone tried to make a case against him, saying to his son Jeremiah that his father admitted he struck the man, and to his daughter that he had kicked him. This Detective Livingstone positively denies. If the detective made such false statements to McCarthy's children the proper time to accuse him of this was while he was giving his evidence in the Magistrate's Court. That was the time to ask him whether he had made certain statements to the children. McCarthy's counsel would have put such questions quickly enough if he could do so. He further states that the detective said in the witness-box that, standing on his verandah, he could see the country around for, perhaps, five miles. The detective does not deny that he made such a statement, and, for my own part, I do not think that the detective exaggerated to any extent. The country is a plain all round there, the fences are low, and a man in many places there could be seen for miles. McCarthy's counsel failed to cross-examine the detective on this point, showing he could not deny what the detective said. The fourth charge is, that the detective stated that the cut of the water-race is 12in. deep at the centre of the road, but, as a matter of fact, there is no cut at all in the middle of the road. Detective Livingstone states that he assisted Detective O'Brien to measure the water-race referred to, and that from the level of the road to the bottom of the race would be about 12in. The real question was not so much the depth of the water-race as whether there was any water in the race. That there was water cannot be denied. If McCarthy's statement were true the deceased must have crossed the race on the Saturday morning; yet, when the body was found the same evening, there were no marks whatever on the trousers, which were quite clean, and nothing to show that he had been in the water at all. The detective was not cross-examined on this point when he gave evidence. The Judge's charge to the Grand Jury is correctly stated by McCarthy. I have, &c, The Commissioner of Police, Wellington. T. Broham, Inspector.

Report of Inquest. (Waimate Times, 16th January, 1895.) An inquest on the body of a man that was found lying dead at the corner of McCarthy's Road and the road known as Doctor's Road, Waihao, on Saturday last, was begun at the Waimate Hospital yesterday, before Major Keddell, Coroner, and a jury of six—namely, Messrs. T. McDowell, S. Binney, H. M. Gilkes, W. H. Scott, R. Inkster, and J. Hazelton—of whom Mr. McDowell was chosen foreman. The Coroner having explained the nature of the case, and the jury and witnesses having viewed the body of the deceased, which was lying at the morgue, an adjournment was made to the Courthouse, as being a more convenient place in which to hold the inquiry. The following evidence was hear! : — Jeremiah McCarthy, farmer, Waihao, deposed that he first saw deceased at his place at about 8 o'clock on the evening of Thursday, January 10. Witness was at his stable-yard when he saw deceased coming across his paddock from the direction of Kilworth's, a neighbour of witness. One of witness's children came to him and said there was a man at the house. He sent a boy down to see what he wanted. Witness could hear him answering the boy, but he could not distinguish what he said. Witness saw deceased go from the front to the back door, and witness