LIBEL ON A MUSICIAN.
[BT TILrQRAPH. I I UNITID PEIBB ABBOOLI.TTOH.J Auckland, 18th July. In a civil case in the Supreme Court. Alfred Charles Ward v. William H. Smith, a olaim ol .£250 damages for alleged libel, the jury awarded £3S damages. The plaintiff was formerly handmaster of the Helping Hand Mission, and the libel consisted in the allegation that all the cornets— the whole of which 'instruments were the property of Smith, who ran the mission — had been out in the slides, to damage them. The plaintiff explained that he out the slides after careful study, in order to get the oornets to play in harmony with the old organ of the mission.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 17, 20 July 1893, Page 2
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114LIBEL ON A MUSICIAN. Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 17, 20 July 1893, Page 2
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