SOUTHLAND
The Political Labour League has adopted a resolution by the committee on sawmill areas to the effect that the Government be urged to pass legislation compelling leaseholders of bush properties suitable for sawmilling to begin working within a reasonable time or forfeit the right to hold such areas.
Jacob Michael Harnon was finod £5. with £2 6s cost, at tho Bluff on the 19th on a charge of having wounded Andrew Erndsten with intent to inflict bodily harm. Accused is a Russian .Finn, a seaman on the Norwegian barque Hermes, and the other man is steward. The steward was drunk, and a brawl ensued. The wound was very slight. It wa6 pointed out that the accused was an alien, speaking only a few words of English, and "matters would be complicated if he were kept in gaol till the ship 6a.iled. The court therefore acted 6ummarilv, the captain undertaking that the accused should not come ashore again.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 25
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