The Opotiki Mail, in replying to a statement that many would consider the civil course a very ample remedy for the Rev. Mr Wills to seek in the libel action against Mr Bates, says that in ” actual practice civil action is not brought against a libeller unless there is some probability of getting costs at least out of him. 1 ’ We do not happen to know Mr Bates, but if the Mail truly speaks the mind of a minister of religion, then religion must be sadly changing up Opotiki way. Possibly we are drifting behind the times, and getting fossilised tn matters of “religion." The following cable message has been received by the N.Z L, and M.A. Co., dated December 0 Frozen meat: Market qniet | N.Z. beef, forequarters are worth 3Jd per lb, hindquarters are worth SJd per lb; other quotations unchanged einee last telsgram. Tallow : There is good demand ; fine mutton tallow is worth 27s per cwt, good beef tallow is worth 35s fi t per cwt,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 542, 9 December 1890, Page 2
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168Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 542, 9 December 1890, Page 2
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