Political Sidelights.
•** - Mr J. W. Kelly is asking, the Minister of;" C Justice if it is his intention to promote or in", some manner recognise any or all tho police ; , officers connected with tbe Dean case. ' Speaking on the Abolition of Capital '-' Punishment Bill, the Minister of Lands said that after Minnie Dean had been sentenced ' ' ' to death for tho Winton baby-farming cases'_;'YY'Ynot a single request for her reprieve was re- "■'.:. ceived by the Executive ;it was in fact the ; desire of every true woman ' that the condemued prisoner should meet her doom. " The Minister for Lands says he doe 3 not '. desire to press anysettfer who is in arrears -■;'••■ so long as he shows a desir^^-gct on to the '. land. >yr ...■- So far very few New Zealand boys have ■ •'-' shonn any desire to join tho British Navy. Tho Premier rather regrets this stato. of * - things. :.- ....- - ,: Ministers db not think .it - necessary - ! "td ./ establish a board of appeal" for the' employes of tho asylums of the colony. " That infernal machine," and " tho most ' "insidious invention ever devised," wero the epithets bestowed ou the totalisator by tho W gentleman moving for its abolition. ,
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 164, 18 July 1896, Page 2
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