ALLEGED LIBEL.
A NEWSPAPER IN TROUBLE.
THE CASE ADJOURNED.
(Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., June 11. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Cooper, the case in which Richard Essex, the late Mayor, claimed £5Ol from. 15. D. Hoben, proprietor of the “Manawatu Times for illeged libel in connection with the recent MayoraJ, election, came up for hearing. The statement of claim set out that the plaintiff had suffered damage from an article :in the “Manawatu J'iines” in which the words “Laborers’ whisky won” figured. It was held that the words meant that the plaintiff had won votes from laborers by providing them with whisky. Other libellous matter was also said to have been published. For the defence it was denied that -lie words quoted referred to plaintiff.
For plaintiff evidence was given by several Councillors, the Town Clerk, the chairman of Essex’s election committee, and others. The ease for the plaintiff'was not completed when the Court adjourned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2215, 12 June 1908, Page 2
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158ALLEGED LIBEL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2215, 12 June 1908, Page 2
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