✨ Notice regarding animal cruelty
NOTICE. PANUITANGA.
Whereas information has been received that two stray horses, supposed to have been trespassing, have been maliciously wounded, at or near Moturoa, by stabbing with a sharp instrument—one of the horses being the property of an European and the other of a Native. And whereas the malicious maiming or wounding of horses and cattle is a punishable offence, and is a practice especially reprehensible, where it tends to disturb the harmony at present subsisting between the races. Now therefore the Superintendent hereby calls upon the Inhabitants of the Province to aid in suppressing the practice in question; and he appeals both to Europeans and Maories to exercise that temper and forbearance in their mutual relations, which have hitherto preserved the tranquillity of the district. The Superintendent further gives notice that the Police are instructed to make strict inquiry in every case of malicious injury to horses and cattle, whether belonging to European or Native owners, and that all offenders will be prosecuted.
CHARLES BROWN,
SUPERINTENDENT.
New Plymouth, Nov. 12, 1853.
No te mea kua puta mai te rongo, kua werohia nga hoiho erua—no nga Pakeha tetahi, no nga tangata Maori hoki tetahi—no ta raua haerenga ki waenga, ka pouri pea te tangata nana te mara, ka tikina ka werohia—kei Moturoa ranei, kei uta atu ranei—A, no te mea he he nui kia matou ki nga Pakeha te patunga hoiho, me nga kararche katoa hoki: he mea whakatupu-kino mo tatou katoa. Mo konei ra, ka me atu ahau ki nga tangata katoa o ia kainga, o ia kainga kia tahuri katoa mai ratou kia pehia rawa tia ki raro tenci ritenga kino. A ka mea atu ahau ki nga Pakeha me nga tangata Maori ano hoki, kia ata whakaaro, kia manawanui tetahi ki tetahi, kia penei me a tatou tikanga ki a tatou no te timatanga ra ano. Na! kia rongo katoa nga tangata, kua ki atu ahau ki nga Pirihi kia tino rapua e ratou te tikanga o tenei patunga: a-me ka mate tetahi mea a mua atu nei, no te Pakeha ranei, no te tangata Maori ranei, kia tino kimihia e ratou te putake o taua he: a ki te kitea te tangata nana te he, ka whakawakia ia ki te ritenga a te ture.
Naku
NA TARE PARAONE,
Tino Kai Whakariterite.
Nui Paremuta
Nowema 1853.
Printed and Published by W. COLLINS for the Provincial Government.
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1853, No 6
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
⚖️ Notice regarding malicious wounding of horses at Moturoa
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement12 November 1853
Animal cruelty, Horses, Moturoa, Police investigation, New Plymouth
- Charles Brown, Superintendent