LATE NEWS.
OPENING PROCEEDING'S. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The charge of sedition against Bishop Liston came before the Supreme Court to-day. Mr V. R. Meredith, Crown Prosecutor, in opening the case, said it was for the jury to consider whether the words alleged to have been said came within the categories prescribed by the law. If so, was accused guilty of the charge preferred? There was a provision that no one could be deemed guilty in this connection if it could be shown that there was merely an endeavour in good faith to point out that His Majesty the King had heen mistaken or misled, or if there were defects in the constitution of the Government which the King's subjects were urged to have changed by lawful means. The Crown Prosecutor went on to explain what was a seditious utterance. Nothing was more imperative than that the tranquility of the State should be preserved, and the .people responsible for its civil government had to see that such utterances were not repeated. Evidence then followed on the lines of that given in the lower court.
BISHOP LISTOFS TRIAL.
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Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1243, 16 May 1922, Page 4
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190LATE NEWS. Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1243, 16 May 1922, Page 4
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