RELEASE OF CHEMIS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXII, Issue 6059, 23 June 1897, Page 2

RELEASE OF CHEMIS

| AND OTHER PBISONEES. j (Per Press ABsociation.) I Dunedin, June 21. The Duncdin Star states authoritatively that free pardons in connection with the Jubi'ee have been extended to Annie Brjane, undergoing sentence for infanticido at Invercargill, Louis Chemis, convicted of the Kaiwarra murder, and a Maori named Bolland, who has served upwards of thirteen years for killing a man in a moment of temper, and whose conduct has been exemplary while in gaol, and twenty short-sentenced prisoners in various parts of the colony were also liberated. The Star further says that the case of the woman Flanaghan, convicted at Christchurch some, years ago of killing her own child, was reviewed by the executive, but her antecedents were such that clemency of the Crown could not be extended in her case. Wellington, .rune 22. About fifteen prisoners are to be released in recognition of the Queen's record reign, but the names will not be divulged by the Minister for Justice, who holds tho opinion that it is not fair to those released to have their names heralded through the colony. |By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.J (Per Presa Association.) London, Juno 22. Beports from the Cape state that liruger to-morrow will release Simpson and Davies, the two members of the Johannesburg Reform Committee, remaining in prison in consequence of the ; r refusal to promise to abstain from interference in politics ill the Transvaal.