FAIR COMMENT.
LIBEL ACTION DISMISSED. (Bj- Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) NAPIER, this day. The Chiol Justice (Sir llobert Stout) to-day nonsuited G. S. C'lapham, who claimed AJI.oOO from the -Tribune", newspaper for alleged libel in five anonymous letters. The. judge held the let- i ters to be fair comment. Costs were awarded on the usual scale for defendant. A stay of execution for 14 days ■was granted, in view of an appeal.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 208, 31 August 1917, Page 5
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70FAIR COMMENT. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 208, 31 August 1917, Page 5
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