MEIKLE AT HOME.
STILL DISSATISFIED. London, April 18. John James Mciklc, who was awarded £2500 compensation in Now Zealand for wrongful conviction and imprisonment on a charge of sheep stealing, has just arrived in London. It will be remembered that the motion to award Mr Meiklo compensation named the amount as £SOOO when it was introduced in the New Zealand Parliament, -hut this amount was eventually reduced by half. “No,” said M>' Meiklo tin's week, “1 have come to London in this year of the Imperial Conference to try to get the Home authorities to take up my case and secure me the other £2500 compensation which it was originally intended I should have. I moan to lecture before the British fiS?- upon the injustice 1 have suf-
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 80, 24 May 1911, Page 6
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