THE MEIKLE COMMISSION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2745, 24 October 1906, Page 78

THE MEIKLE COMMISSION.

WELLINGTON. October 17. There s-ooms to be but little proepect of the suspended sittings of tho Meikle Commission being resumed and concluded during the stay of Mr Justice Edwards and Mr Justice Cooper in Wellington at (he pre=ent sittings of tho Court of Appeal. j It will be remembered that when the coiiiI mission last sat, in the middle of May, an ifljoumment sino dio wai made to enable tho evidence of Mr W. R. Cameron, formerly manager for the New Zealand Land, Mortgage, and Investment Company (tho former owners cf I*lay Station, from which J. J. Meikle wae alleged to have -tolen the sheep), to be taken by commission in London. The adjournment was further necessary to permit of a return to tho colony of the present Minister of Lands (the Hon. R. M'Nab), • who c e evidence was considered necessary. 1 Mr Cameron's evidence has not yet come l out from Homo, and it is probable that ■ no further sitting of the commission will bo held unlil its arrival, when the Hon. Mr M'Nab will probably be examined . and counsel's closing address delhered.

The recent tang! over" the remains of the late Wi Farata at Waikanac is said to be the greatest ever recorded in the colony for Nativo obsequies. Maoris were present from all parts of New Zealand — Jncj^ women, and children of all agea.