THE MEIKLE COMMISSION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13156, 5 May 1906, Page 7

THE MEIKLE COMMISSION.

MEIKLE SHARPLY * CROSS-EXAM- *"»" (Bet Association.) .#(■ „.' Bunedin, May .3. . Befbre^iille'sMeikle Commission, ths cross-examination o£-*Meikle was continued a£irßiri^ltL(iS. n iiis indebtedness to Sir J.G. Ward .when he went to prison i y asj inothjmg lik(j. £12()p. it^was not more than. ~ £4(?(i or £500. fladidnot know that Jlr jtfcNab, M.U.R.,' had' undertaken, to the. -Premiei- that the £spO paid him (^j!^l^f^l£s 'id be- a final settlement. Sir Robert Stout told him to sign ihe receipt and petition again. Ct,ptain. ;i ßussell s an,cl ■Mr George Hiutchison^old' him the same thing. Mr Justice Edwards 'said the Court declined. to^ "believe that Sir Rober.tr Stout .jsaid wiiat Msikle «^lieged,..lintil the^Chief Justice said^so hi^nself. They did 1 "noi say Meiikfla wafe speaking falsely, but assujnetl '/te. h&d misunder-stood-Sir;V Robext. /. ■■_.... In reply; to Dr. Mndlay, Meikle said he wcfuld- not agree to accept their Honours' finding as final. /. He

woiild/inafcje ,r.o further .ag^tatipittj 'so far.^s the \fcve;o; judges were concernJames Eorsaith., a retired farmer, gave evidence as obS"<^iog: . wire marks. on. sheep skins, When M<?iklq was before .iim, '"-when the charge of sheep stealing; was lirst made. John * Tentpleton, storekeeper and farmer at:;>Wy^dhani, who ;gaye evidencp at the trial q£ Meiiljlei. aixd Win. McGreorge, who g-ave evidence at the triaUpf were also exainined. The latter ;ideni«2(i being , in a helpless st^te, of /intpjeication. during the trial, and dmiM^-tftat 3 M«i€le wa^ plying him i wi^ (Jtrnk before he went into the witness box. > „