CLERGYMAN SENT TO PRISON.
* POWER OF AX OATH. ■X ELECTEIO TILEGUAI'U Col'iKtuUT TEH UNITED I'UESS ASSOCIATION. MELBOURNE, March 15. The Rev. P. J, Murdoch, clerk of tho South Melbourne Presbytery, lias beau committed to prison for contempt of Court by refusing to produce a. copy of a letter sent by tho {Presbytery to the defendant in the action of Rev. Ronald versus Robert Harper, a member of the House of Representatives. Mr Murdoch insisted that he had sworu to keep all the documents ot tho Presbytery, and could not give them up without the Presbytery's authority.
MR MURDOCH COMMENDED. Received March 16, 9.45 a.m. MELBOURNE. March 10. At a meeting of tho Presbytery Mr Murdoch's action was couiinendeti and be Was to produce the letter.
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Mataura Ensign, 16 March 1909, Page 3
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