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I THE PORTLAND CASE.

LONDON, January 15. At the instance of a shareholder, and with the consent of all the parties, Mr Justice Neville ordered the compulsory winding-up of the sew Drrjee-Partlaji<£. Company. The petitioner declared thafc the promoters acted bona fide and honestly throughout, and were anxious that the subscribers should be reimbursed fully. Mr F. Smith, for the promoters, said ih.9 latter never suspected that Mr Hollamby Druce did not represent the elder branch of the family. Sir H. Poland, in a letter to The" i Times, contends that the recent pToeecution of Mr Herbert' Druce for perjury was a most scandalous abuse <*f the criminallaw, since the facts of the burial were, overwhelmingly proved -before the Probate' Court in 1901. • v MISS ROBINSON ARRESTED.. LONDON, January 17. Mr Edmund Kimber, who appeared aa one of the prosecuting counsel In tho Druce perjury case, condemns Sir Harry Poland's criticisms, and justifies the recent criminal prosecution procedure. January 18. At the instance of the Director of Publid* Prosecutions, Miss Mary Robinasn, a witness in the Druce case, has been arrested, on a charge of perjury. , Mies Robinson was remanded for< ai week. Sir Albert De> Rutzen refused bail. Sir Charles Mathewa stated that Miear Robinson's evidence, was' a tissue of false.* hoods, and it was difficult to believe thati bo elaborate a etory could be put forwardi without assistance. He hoped the inquiry would_ discover the source. Possibly it)* would be necessary to bring witnesses from New Zealand. 1 January 20. C The police testimony alleged that Mfec(Robinson was the daughter of a " police- • man named Webb, and had married ai, butcher named Robinson. When told this Robinson exclaimed "Good God; who' told! you this? " Robinson's sister has been traced, " _, » - •According to an American authority ail up-to-date locomotive engine travels from 500,000 to 600,000 miles' before it it wora

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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 26

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I THE PORTLAND CASE. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 26

I THE PORTLAND CASE. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 26

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