Perhaps the most shocking libel action ever heard in the colony was that in which a sentence of two years was passed at Auckland yesterday. If ever a man deserved scourging with the lash such desert was many times earned by that disgrace to manhood who bears the name of Hugh Shortland. For deliberate rascality it would be difficult to find a parallel case. To spite the girl and her mother, because he had been baulked in his desire to marry the former, he took extraordinary means to try and damn their characters. He was not ashamed to mix his own name in the guilt if he could only besmirch the name of the ghl, whose fair fame the Judge has declared to have been fully established, Imprisonment is too good a thing for such poison-disseminators and pests to society as was this Hugh Shortland,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 659, 15 September 1891, Page 2
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145Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 659, 15 September 1891, Page 2
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