Feilding Jockey Club and the Bookmakers.
THE CASE BEFORE <*l HIGHER COURT. (Per Press Association.) Wellington. This Day. In the Supreme Court to-day Justice Edwards, upon the motion of Mr Jellicoe, counsel for Wm. Ryan, turf commission agent, wbo was fined for trespass on tbe Feilding racecourse during the late races libere, granted an order calling upon Mr Stanford, S.M., to show cause why the conviction should not be quashed and in the alternative why a writ should not be issued of prohibition to stay the Magistrate from further proceedings on the following grounds ; firs*, no offence was proved ; second, that the Act complained of was committed in the exercise of supposed right ; third, that Mr Sherwill, a steward of the Feilding Jockey Club bad an interest in the conviction, and was therefore disqualified under the Justices of the Peace Act from receiving the information preferred against Ryan ; fifth, that the Magistrate in adjudicating On the case aoted as prosecutor ox adviser to the prosecution, and therefore there was a reasonable apprehension of bias on his part. The case will be argued in Banco after the long vacation.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 148, 22 December 1896, Page 2
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188Feilding Jockey Club and the Bookmakers. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 148, 22 December 1896, Page 2
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