SYDNEY LAND SCANDALS.
* j Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, July 26. (Received July 27, at- 0.52 a.m.) Mr Willis, who has been extradited from Natal, declined to be interviewed, but supplied a statement to the press, | chiefly recounting the details of his fight against extradition. The reasons he gave were that he was an innocent man. l'::\ lie was traduced and slandered by Parlia- j jnent and the Ministry, was arrested in a cowardly manner, cruelly thrust into a Kaffir prison, and charged with a crime which they knew was trivial and political. He remarked that when he got close to his detractors he would dash the brains out of some of them. SYDNEY! July 26. (Received July 26, at 3.12 p.m.) In connection, with his suspension from Parliament, Mr Crick has issued writs against- Mr M'GWfc (the Speaker) and Mr Harnett (the Scrgeant-at-arms in the Assembly), claiming £2000 damages in each case.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13656, 27 July 1906, Page 5
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