AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
THE MAKENS >EN FENCED TO DEATH (PER PRESB ASSOCIATION.") Melbourne, This Day. The revenue recoipts for the last quarter decreased by £151,000 as compared with corresponding quarter last year. The receipts for the financial year show a decrease of £545,000. Hodart, This Day. Tainui arrived from London and Capetown yesterday afternoon, and sailed for Auckland at 7 o'clock this morning. The Premier states that when Parliament meets it will be necossary to impose additional taxation. Sydney, March 31. The Court of Appeal, in hearing the Makin case, discussed the Hall poisoning trial as a precedent. Mr Justice Windeyer considered Mr Justice Williams, of Dunedin, was right in admitting evidence which the Supreme Court of New Zealand declared iuadtmssable, as, viewed in the light of a science and com mon s j nse, there was a nexus between the death of Captain Cain and the illness of Mrs Hall; and the exclusion of any evidence which would show such a con ncction could only be regarded as erroneous. Mr Justice Foster agreed, but Mr Justice Innes disagreed. The prison* ers were formally sentenced to death.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 121, 1 April 1893, Page 2
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186AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 121, 1 April 1893, Page 2
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