LIBERATION OF PRISONERS.
'''(BI TKLEGBAPH,— PRE 63 ASSOCIATION. ] Nafikr, Friday. A half-caste named Robert White, and a Maori, Tenei Te, undergoing sentences for bpusebreaking, have been liberated in connection with the Jubilee celebration.
Wellington, Friday. One of the prisoner!? released from Nelson gaol was * Maorj of the Gisbprne District who had served thirteen years for wjfe murder, The second was a man who had served four out of seven years for forgery, apd the third was » man who had been senteuced for stealing letters from a post office.
Replying to a Times representative, Chemis said: " I have no desire to make a statement." There were, he added, certain points in connection with his case which he was able to clear up, bub lie preferred to do so later on,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10479, 26 June 1897, Page 5
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