HB Herald, June 22, 1894 At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr M. LASCELLES, J.P., William ADAIR was fined 10s and costs for being drunk at Clive. The Supreme Court was occupied all day yesterday with the further hearing of the case, commenced on Wednesday, in which Allan M'LEOD and Alfred James SYMONDS were charged with shooting a cow......There was practically no dispute as to the main facts, it being admitted that M'LEOD shot the animal in question and that SYMONDS had a considerable portion of the meat. The Crown held that the cow, which was a tame one, was wilfully shot as such, the defence being that it was shot as one of some wild cattle that M'LEOD and others went into the bush to hunt.......the jury, without leaving the box, returned a verdict of not guilty. Prisoners were accordingly discharged.