Meikle Commission.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3870, 7 May 1906, Page 3

Meikle Commission.

SHADY I! KVKI.ATIONS

Drx; 1-in, May -i. Eefore ilu j M- hd. t ■ mini u n Muklfc’.'crcSS f-Xi: .0 11 v,;..- . .... - tiriUtd. AfVrr ( qiii ■" mp cautioned by the ißmh, be immith n improper intimacy as i || eir:e; , i, with a young worn m. I m gave an <mphatic denial to tim £ mgm d ion ih.i. be made an improp-'i* proposa.! io a girl who had been in hid tmpluv, or had committed a crime on her. lie went with Inspector McDonnell, of Napier, to cUVct her amst, bin, withdrew the iefot illation out of pity for her family. He said his unit b!o Iness to Sir J. G. Ward whevi ho wo a r.em to prison was nothing like ill2o'b It wa y not more than £4OO orTuOU lie did not know Mr McNab h id under l alum to the Premier that the £SOO paid him was (o bo a final stUR mom. Sir Eobert Smut told him to sign the receipt and petition again. Capt. Russell and Mr George Hutchinson had told him the same thing. Justice Edwards said the Court declined to believe that Sir Robert Stout said what Meikle alleged until the Chief Justice raid eo himself. They did not say Mi-ikD was speaking falsi-ly, but assumed that he hud misunderstood ■* ir Robert.

In reply to Dr Findlay, Meikle said he would not agree to accept their Honors’ findings td final. He would make no further agitation so far as the two judges were cancel mu. Jas. Fortmith, a retired farmer, gave evidence as to his observing wire nuuks oa sliccprkius when Meikle was bvFtv him. vvlun the charge of sheep-steuiiug was tint made.

John Temfleton, eto; ekoopcr and farmer at Wyndham, who gave evidence at the trial of Mcike, and V>m. McGeorge, who gave t vidui'.'e at the trial of Lambert, we'o also examined. The latter denied being in a helpless 'sta>3 of intoxication during the nial, and denied that Meikio was piying him with drink before he went into the witness box.