THE SEDITION CASES.
WILL BE HEARD IX MARCH. The appeals that have been lodged against Magisterial decisions convicting Robert Semple, Frederick Cooke.aml others, who are now serving sentences of one year’s imprisonment for seditious utterances, were expected by (he friends of the appellant to have been heard at Christchurch very soon. However, at the public mooting held at Sydenham Dark on Sunday afternoon, when references were made to the imprisonment of. the anti-eonseriptionists, Mr C. W. Webber read the following extract from a letter sent by Mr George Hutchison, solicitor, Wellington, who is acting for the appellants, to Mr J. McCombs, M.D.: — “Wellington, January 23. “Dear Mr McCombs. —1 hud practically arranged for a Full Court of three Judges to sit (his week .... but the SolicitorGeneral winds not less than live Judges to constitute the Court, so that there is no probability of that until the Judges assemble here (Wellington) for the Court of Appeal ou March 2(ith. The SolicitorGeneral attaches importance to the constitutional question, and wishes to have the most authoritative decision on the subject. ... Yours, etc., “GEORGE HUTCHISON."
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1669, 1 February 1917, Page 3
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181THE SEDITION CASES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1669, 1 February 1917, Page 3
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