STRIKE ECHOES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16602, 14 July 1914, Page 2

STRIKE ECHOES.

CASE OF IV. T. YOUNG

ARGUMENT BEFORE APPEAL COURT. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July, 13. The Appeal Court is engaged in the hearing of argument on certain law points reserved at the trial in May last of William Thomas Young on a charge of sedition, with reference to a speech made on October 26, 1913, at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, during the recent waterside workers’ strike. ' The main question is whether the conviction and punishment of Young, for inciting people to resist the police, which was founded unon certain words in the same speech, the whole of which was looked at bv the Magistrate, are an answer to the present proceedings. Mr Justice Hosking at the trial overruled this objection, relying on Holland’s case, and reserved the question for consideration by the Appeal Court. Young was convicted of sedition, hut sentence was postponed, pending the decision of the Appeal Court on this question and certain minor questions as to the admissibility of certain evidence. Mr T. M. Wilford and Mr P. J. O’Regan appeared for the accused, and the Solicitor-General for the Crown. Decision was reserved.