High Cost Of Murder
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APIA, Sept. 25.
ACCORDING, to recent reports from Niue Island, a murder was recently committed there. A Nfuean fatally injured another native during a quarrel, the victim of the assault later dying in hospital.
A difficulty has cropped up now re garding the trial of the accused, which will have to take place before the Chief Judge of Samoa, who has to travel to Niue from Apia. Counsel for the defence (an Auckland solicitor, Mr. Baxter) has to travel to Niue from Auckland via Rarotonga.
In view of the sparse communications of Niue with the outside world the prob lems of handling the trial are rather diffi cult to solve, and the costs of the case will, in any case, be disproportionately high.