CHINESE QUESTION.
[By Electric Tkleghaph.—Copyright.] Sydney, June 5. In hearing an application of habeas rorpus to-day the Chief Justice said the writ ought to be rendered unnecessary, the Court having previously decided that the detention of the Chinese had been illegal He stated that if any of the men so detained, in attempting to break free, hilled anyone they could not be punished for murder, as they were illegally restrained, contrary to the distinct order of the Court ; but, on the other baud, the person so restraining them would be guilty of murder. The Chinese passengers by the Changhai were landed to-night uuder a writ of habeas carpus.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2482, 7 June 1888, Page 2
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108CHINESE QUESTION. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2482, 7 June 1888, Page 2
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