MURDER OF CAPTAIN MOLLER.
Possible liberation c>s Eennell.. * [ (BY ELEOTMti TiMWBaEAPH.) j (fbqjc oca. owH. 9Q#sßspo]Kpßirr.) • A veryim^rtant cwe^iwai'gfu^ ih:the :^ri '%',■ss '#■ <iNf # ; :; <f ?¥.w,; .aiio i» {&a*ge 1 0&> (gaoler^wjth/i. •< vaew to a^c^ntag-'W&fli^'tfie vCknirtteifflWr Now Zealand t haYe j^rwdictao^Wiaft^S 111 side the lijoits Qf . Queen's joriadiotion. Mr Heslwitli argneU^that . the shooting o.f , .Captain Moller was comnaitted on the Island where the Queen's a^tjioritjr does not extend,, aiid that if it were flags followed Bubjects ftpdr tiiei^i^ha^ j»pj^rto< tipty Fiji to be by » Hitfi"?Com|^ njisaioneri it ; .mi«ti bo- Erovß^, tJ^fef^pjj » Cpmmiseioner had beaa-appointed. ■ , *}.', ' Mr Tylor argued th&t theC^rt nidf )?owm to <km* l s.' fre^ Witr^t oW^tta*n| the "■ prisoner to- Levttk«, under tQ^gonaraV' juriadiction of the Queen over all her subje6la, J ' -'- bfttdidnotprbdaa9Lproofß:ofrthftexißtenceat .. a High Gomtnißßioner.; y : ;';a ; ■ s .u'i ~ ; : : ". Judge Gilliea reaerved judgment, regarding- : - . the point raised as one of the utmost itß*po'rtNioe.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 680, 18 January 1879, Page 2
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144MURDER OF CAPTAIN MOLLER. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 680, 18 January 1879, Page 2
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