LIBEL ACTION.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9155, 16 December 1891, Page 3

LIBEL ACTION.

Wellington, Tne<ulny. In the libel case today, Kvison v. Thornton and Uenrichs, most of the morning was taken up with Archbishop Redwood's evidence. He said he hud never had any complaint from t'uc men about wages. He knew Evieon hnd been a Freethinker, hut was given to understand that bin viewß had undergone n change. Evison never concealed anything from him. Had tho sUil'.ment in the letters been true, be would Imve felt boand to discharge tbe plaintiff. Crossexamined, he said be did not consider there was any sweating in the Catholic Times ofllee. He believed Mi Cooper, printer, wan not making a large profit out lof the contract. Mr Jellicoe wished witness to read some objei.tionable passages in the Rationalist, lmt he refused, aud was upheld by M- Jnstice Richmond. A larce part ot tlie crossCKwinntion was directed to the question of prison's Free'hooght tenets, bat the Archbishop paid bo considered tlio plain(iff, now fiat be had given »p the Freethougbt ptfoaganda, was ft fit and proper person to edit a paper like the Catholic Times, explaining Hint Evlson bad nothing to do with the religious part of the paper, for which a separate staff was provided. Mr F. Cooper, printer, paid he contracted to print and publish, the piper for £14 8s per week. He had never reduced wages, but had raised them thi i i year. He made under £i a week oat <f it htm* self, and onJy as much as that Alice tbe jobbing business bad increased. Later. Evidence for the defence wm partly beard this afternoon, but neither of the defendants was called. W. M'Girr, late president of ihc \Vellington branch of tbe Typographical Association, stated that the Catholic Times office was "farmed." Tbe case will be resumed tomorrow morning, and will probably last all day.