CHIEF AND SUBJECTS.
PUNISHMENT RIGHTS. CASE FOR PRIVY COUNCIL. LONDON; June 24. Tho Privy Council is considering the startling problem of whether a. Bechuana land chief lias tho right to burn down tho houses of his . subjects as punishment for an attack upon .him, . Chief Tshckedi Kh.uvna himself raised tho qucstioif, which was .referred originally to tho Magistrate's . Court at. Mafe king, whoro a decision favourablo to Ivhama was given. The Appeal Court re versed the decision, and London King's Counsel, are now arguing tho caso before the Privy Council, as it turns upon the Interpretation of native law Khama and his subjects are not required to give evidence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 11
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