WELLINGTON.
(Per Press Telegram Agency.) Monday. ut . An Extraordinary Case. At the last Criminal sittings a man named Cameron was convicted of rape on a girl named Eliza Smith, aged 14 years, and sentenced to ten years and 50 lashes, although recommended to mercy by the jury. Affidavits of a very strong character have since been sworn, proving the girl to have been of a grossly dissolute character, and that Cameron could not possibly have assaulted her at the time or tinder the circumstances. She swore to evidence not forthcoming at the trial. As tne pnsonetjche'd no means of summonsing witnesses ffc™> count and hig , fl £ 3i*BM &Du>had miscarried, and weywere^DWb^beiDgwanted^rsCameadvice to-day, laid infor-mttwffi-for perjury against the girl Smith, for waom a warrant has been issued.
False, Assistant Native Secretary, has been appointed Judge of the Native Lands Court.
» Messrs Turnbull and Co. have purchased from the City the Towd Hall site on the reelnimeil land for £SOO and a piece of land big enough for a Town Hall.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1697, 27 July 1875, Page 3
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169WELLINGTON. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1697, 27 July 1875, Page 3
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