PRESS ASSOCIATION APOLOGY.

Feilding Star, 16 May 1907, Page 3

PRESS ASSOCIATION APOLOGY.

— '• — * Wellingon, May 16. In February last certain telegrams were published relating to the death and exhumation of the body of the late Miss Howell. Those telegrams oontained passages which were complained of by Miss Hall as seriously reflecting upon her, and she has lately commenced actions against some of the newspapers ' which published the telegrams, under various headings, for damages iot libel. We need hardly say that when the telegrams were published, we had no intention of making any charges against Miss Hall, and the serious side of the matter of which Miss Hall complains did not present itself to us, or the paragraphs would not have been published. The actions commenced by Miss Hall against certain of the papers concerned have now been settled amicably, and we desire to take this opportunity of unreservedly withdrawing # any charges which were unwittingly made against Miss Hall, and to say that those statements which were contained in the paragraphs and which reflected upon Miss Hall have been clearly shown to be without foundation, and we sincerely regret their publication. UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, Wellington.