LIBEL CASE.—DAMAGES AWARDED
Isveecaegili/, This day.
At the Supreme Court yesterday, the only case of interest was that of Hornsby (Lake County Press) v. Warren (Lake Wakatipu Mail) for a libel contained in the following extract from tho Arrow town correspondent of the Mail on the occasion of a lecture by plaintiff on Ireland: —"Ireland has once more to cry 'save me from my friends.' The lecturer appears to have an insatiable penchant for ' blood and murder,' inculcated in Vim perhaps in his early youth, as ho hails from Tasmania, and it has before now been remarked that his lineage is to be traced in the records of the Chatham Isles. This accounts for and excuses a great deal." The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £50, the claim having been £1000. The Judge reserved several law points raised by counsel for the defendant for a nonsuit.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3790, 7 September 1883, Page 3
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