THE MEIKLE COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8107, 11 May 1906, Page 2

THE MEIKLE COMMISSION.

PBB FBJSBS ASSOCIATION, Dunedin, May 10. Before the Meikle Commission today, James Fleming, a farmer at Eakahopu, stated ho had examined the fences between the properties of Meikle and the Company on the 12th November, 1887. He found them in good order. There was nothing particular to tempt the sheep eithor on one side of the fence or the other. William Stuart, who succeeded Troup in 1887, as manager of Islay Station, stated there was fairly good feed for sheep on the Company's land. He did not think there was anything on Meikle's land to tempt the sheep to! stray from off the Company's land. Before the Meikle Commission in th e afternoon, the principal witness was Mrs Meikle, the wife of supplicant. She remembered, the 17th October, 1887, aB it was on that day her son Arthur was bolieved t6 bo dying of pleurisy. She heard Lambert say on several occasions he was to get LSO for putting sheepskins in her husband's barn or smithy. After her husband's imprisonment, she saw Troup, and told him she bolieved ho had documents that would clear her husband. He replied, " Yes j but it would put others in gaol." Witness offered him LIOO for the documents. Robert Troup, recalled, said he told Mrs Meikle he had no documents such aB she referred to. He never told her if he got her husband out it would put others in. The sitting here is expected to conclude to-morrow, when Lambert will be examined.