Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 612, 1 July 1908, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

The Sievier libel case is attracting the attention of the cableman, and in to-day's issue are given some startling aspects of the methods and conduct of an Australian who has been the centre of other sensational episodes in the past. For years past ' there has been 'had blood" between the editor-owner of the Winning Post (a sporting paper published in London) and John Barnato Joel, a multi- , millionaire from South Africa. Three • years ago Sievier began his journalisj tic attack on J.B.J. by means of an i "Open Letter to J. B. Joel." Tin's lie followed up by assailing both Joel's Stock Exchange methods and his turf transactions. As recently as February last, Sievier denounced J. Is. Joel as a fugitive .from justice nnd one who shrank from standing his trial for illicit diamond buying in South Africa. Shortly after the . Open Letter to J. B. Jool appeared in the Winning Post, Sievier alleges : that Joel engaged a mob of despera- ! does in order to assault and batter i him, in proof of which the numbers . of the Lank notes alleged to have been i received by Murray, head of the j gang, from Joel were published in ; the Winning Post. J.B. and Soloj man Joel inherited a colossal fortune from their famous uncle, Mr Barney i Marn^to (who suicided a few years ! ago), which by shrewd manipulations ;of the Stock Exchange they have j largely increased. Sol. Joel gained I notoriety a few months back through the Von Vettheim blackmailing affair, for which rt may be recalled that Von Veltheim was condemned to imprisonment for life. Woolf Joel, the eldest brother, was shot, so it is said, by Von Veltliei'ni. The family is as rich in troubles and trials as in gold and diamonds. Ownkrs of slice]) in the immediate neighbourhood of Feihling have been considerably annoyed of late by dogs i worrying their sheep. As a result i they have declared war on the wandering dog and a kind of vendetta ! against the owners of same. But I perhaps they will be interested in the ! experience of another shoep-farmer who had been troubled by dogs and who found a new use for goats. He says: "Keep a few goats in the flock and dogs wilT never bother them, j We had a flock of 000 head, and never , lost one when we had goats."