CHARGE OF SEDITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 45, 14 July 1914, Page 2

CHARGE OF SEDITION.

j Till': W. T. YOUNG APPEAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, July 13. '"lu> Appeal Court was engaged' iiliia morning in Inuring' argument on certain law points reserved at the. trial in May last of William Thomas Young ou a charge of sedition with reference to a speech made 011 October 20, ll>l3, at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, during the recent waterside workers' strike. Tpie main question id whether the conviction and punishment of William Young for inciting people to resist the police, which was founded upon certain words in the same; speech, the whole of which was loolied at by the Magistrate. Mv Justice Hosking, at the frrial, over-ruled this objection, relying on Holland's rase, and reserved the question for the consideration of the Appeal Court. Young was convicted of sedition, but sentence was postponed pending the decision of the A;.: ; '' Corart on tliis question, an:! rei't'iin minor iincstioiis on file of certain evidinee. Messrs T. 11. Wilford and P. J. O'Regnn appeared for accu-ed and the Sidk-iter-tleiUMa! t'ov the Crown. Wellington, Last Night. In the Appeal Court case, Rex. v. Yoaing, the argument has concluded Wd decision was reserved. v