THE NASI PROSECUTION.
ANTI-GOVEKNMENT AGITATION IN SICILY. ROME, November 29. The prosecution of Signor Nasi, who was Minister of Public Instruction in Italy in 1903, has raised an intense anti-Government agitation in Sicily. Images of Nasi have been enshrined in many localities. The refusal to grunt him bail was due to the discovery of a plot to com • pass his flight. (Some weeks ago Signor Nasi was tried on a charge of malversating of public funds. He then admitted having charged to his "travelling expenses" account a considerable portion of the sum which was voted from time to tiim- under the heading of "secret expenditure for political purposes." His advocates tried to secure an examination of the Budgets of all Ministries, with a view to rebutting the charge that Nasi had exaggerated the amount of his personal expenditure. After a stormy scene the advocates relinquished their brief as a protest against what they described as the unjudicial attitude of the Senate. It has been asserted that Signor Nasi's department had become the headquarters of the Camorra and the Mafia, two notorious Italian secret aociates,)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8994, 2 December 1907, Page 5
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184THE NASI PROSECUTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8994, 2 December 1907, Page 5
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