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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1906, Page 2

In reference to a paragraph which appeared iv our columns lost evening, pppied from, the Marlborough Express, relating tp the action J. A. Connell against tho proprietors of the Marlborough Herald, it might appear that the observations of Mr. • Justice Denniston related to th« whole of the defence. Aa a. matter of f a <jt, these ob,seryfvtions were confined only to that portion of the defence , which alleged incompotency on tho part of the plaintiff. In referen»B to {his defence, the actingchajrman of directors of tho defendant company said when giving evidence, in answer tq hia Honour, that while he justified the defence, hp himself might have preferred not to plend it, but the directors as a whole decided that it ought to be pleaded, and had expressly so instructed. Tbo niain defence to the action was that th«r« was a verbal agreement between tho parties that Mr, Oonnell's engagement* should, bo terminable by either party at any time without notioe. It ww PR this ground pf 'defence that bis Honour reserved his decision, Fqr children's hacking cough at night. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d •ad 8i 6d par boftlt.-AdTt, '* W (