WELLINGTON NEWS.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. At the Supremo Court John Still was acquitted on a charge of having knowingly received stolon property. John Gray was found guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, of having attempted to dissuade Henry Ransden by bribery from giving evidence against Edward Gerald, who was yesterday found guilty of theft at Woodviile. Sentenced was deferred, and bail wus granted the accused, pending argument in regard to tho case in tbe Court of Appeal. A corporal in the Wellington Volunteer Corps, who was recently convicted in tbe Police Court of killing a sheep by shooting it from a railway carriage when returning from rifle pruetiee, has been dismissed from the force.
Tne Trades and Labor Council to-night passed a resolution protesting ugainst tho Government issuing instructions that railway employees are not to bo allowed to exercise their rights m general polities. Tho resolution was the result of a discussion in regard to a man at Putone workshops who had wished to stand at the Municipal elections.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 879, 1 May 1903, Page 3
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172WELLINGTON NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 879, 1 May 1903, Page 3
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