ALLEGED LIBEL.
BERTLING v. TRUTH. [press association.] WELLINGTON, This Day. Before the Chief Justice, to-day, Robert Bertling, superintendent of the Wellington "Zoo," claimed £2OOO from John Norton, proprietor of Truth, for an alleged libel. The case was tried before a special jury. Defendant denied the words complained of .reflected on plaintiff An his occupation, or had been published falsely or maliciously, or were libellous or defamatory, and that in their natural ordinary significance they were true in substance and in fact. It was stated an apology had been published, which was said by plaintiff to be no apology at all, but a case of adding insult to inujry. The case is proceeding.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 5
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112ALLEGED LIBEL. Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 5
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