A PROSECUTION.
EVIDENCE R___"X*___D. PIETERMARITZBURG, Nov. 29. Sir Duncan Mackenzie was prosecuted on charges of forcing Indians to work throughout Sundays, supplying them with short rations and flogging them upon tbe slightest provocation. The magistrate rejected the evidence of six complainants and their witnesses on the ground of prevarication upon all material points. Sir Duncan Mackenzie stated that he supplied his men with better food than that prescribed by the statute, and the work on Sundays was confined to milking cows.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14837, 1 December 1913, Page 7
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81A PROSECUTION. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14837, 1 December 1913, Page 7
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