AUCKLAND.
A PRAYER IN THE DOCK. July 5. The Rev. Mr. Munro has been inducted to St. Luke's Church. The members of the Presbytery have adpoted a petition to the Assembly, embodying the Permissive License principles. The three men charged with rape on an old woman have been acquitted, the evidence of the prosecutrix being unsupported, and the evidence for the defence showing her to be intemperate, and with a bad memory. When discharged, Hugh M'Kenzie, one of the accused, knelt in the dock, and publicly thanked God for his deliverance. Mr. Cox, M.H.R., addressed hia constituents at To Awamutu, Waik»*a. A vote of " Want of confidence " by a large majority.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 375, 6 July 1877, Page 2
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111AUCKLAND. Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 375, 6 July 1877, Page 2
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