The Bruce Herald. "Nemo me impune lacesset." TOKOMAIRIRO, MAY 4, 1878.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1015, 4 June 1878, Page 5

The Bruce Herald. "Nemo me impune lacesset." TOKOMAIRIRO, MAY 4, 1878.

____ — Mb Heitet Clabk did not make a creditable 'appearance at Friday night's meeting. Even his best friends, those with' whom he boasted he could pack any meeting, will acknowledge this. Mb C^abb: was evident, to say the least of it, uncandid and disingenuous. After having 'agreed with a number of gentlemen that tbere was no objection to making the Milton station the place for detention of passengers for Tuapeka, he suddenly turned up as the advocate of Clarksville in this respect. After having received and accepted a perfectly candid explanation as to the meeting being called for inhabitants of the whole district, he convertedhimeelf in to a special pleader and endeavoured to quibble over th© wording of an -advertisement. Our readers can with safety be referred to the report of the meeting, which is printed elsewhere, to show how unenviable a position Mr Clabk occupied. To that report we would direct the attention of the people of this district. It is on. the whole ih consequence of its being necessarily abbreviated rather more favourable to Mr Clark than a verbatim report of the proceedings would have been. But even with this advantage it shows plainly that Mr Class carried his spirit of wholesome economy into dealings with truth itself, and that ~ his professions as to -accommodation oi passenger traffic on the Tuapeka line were simply nonsense. We do not wish to write harshly of Mr Clabk, and therefore simplj leave the report of Friday night's meeting in the hands of our readers to judge foi themselves.

We" learn with some degree of satisfaction : thatM-.-srs Holt and M'Cartht, proprietors of the Press Agency, intend taking proceedings against certain literary thieves, who thus deprive honest subscribers to the Agency of the first fruits of their enterprise. Messrs HoKTandM'CABTHY havecommecned proceedings against the proprietors of at least one newspaper for a breach of copyright. In this connection it may be mentioned that a case has recently been tried at Singapore which, although not actually on a parallel with the New Zealand one, has nevertheless some features in common with it, and the principle involved is the same. In reference to it the Melbourne .' Argus ■' of the 13th" inst. says: — "A case of some importance, as concerning the copyright of telegrams, has been recently decided in the Supreme Court at Singapore, before the Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Sidegreaves. The. plaintiffs were the proprietors of the ' Straits Times,' and the defendant was the owner of a paper called the 'Daily Sheet.' The former paper had purchased the exclusive right of publishing Reuter's telegrams in Singapore, but had allowed the defendant to use the telegrams in his paper after they had appeared in the ' Straits Times' on payment of a trifling subsidy. After a time the defendant gave up paying the subsidy, but continued to publish the telegrams as befoie, and application was made to the Supreme Court to restrain him from doing SO. The case was argued on the 6th oi March, and on the Bth the Chiet Justice gave judgment. He was entirely with the plaintiffs in the matter. • The defendant,' he said, 'is cpnfessedly taking advantage of the plaintiffs enterprise and expenditure to make a profit 1 . for himself. This the law will not permitThe injunction prayed for was granted, with costs." ,