SEDITION CHARGES.
CHIEF JUSTICE’S REMARKS. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, February 12. The hearing of the charge of sedition against Edward Hunter was resumed to-day. In the course of his summing up, the Chief Justice remarked that sedition was a rare charge in New Zealand. The early settlers had been able to improve their laws and air their grievances without reaching to violence. Practically the only violence in the past was that associated with the Maori War. Recently, however, it had been resorted to and no country could exist if it was* allowed to go on unchecked and unpunished. Freedom of speech should not be abused, am in this connection the jury had to consider whether the speech of accused was intended to create violence or was it a speech merely in criticism of the existing Government or of existing institutions. The jury then retired.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 6
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144SEDITION CHARGES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 6
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