THE POLITICAL LIMIT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 266, 30 October 1911, Page 5

THE POLITICAL LIMIT.

AND A LIBEL ACTION. PRIME MINISTER DEI IDES TO PROt EED. IBY TF.I.EOK.VPII -l-K IVI. | (Own Correspondent.) Wellington. Oct. 30Sir Joseph Ward, m the course of hi* review >n the vv.-.rk ihe *e«ion in the Hottro on Satu.-Jay afieinc.in. had something pungent to sav on certain method* <J attack upon him-elf. ami of lo* own deter, ruination to deal vv ith th(in. He -aid at no time he objected t<. tairspc.k -n criticism. but within the last 21 hour-' he had com lilted v. ith hilawyer* and a- a n suit bad given instruction- ’ > proiei <1 against a newspaper. He lad received many apologies f.r having been libelled, no fewer than six within the last few week*, but in cue case die libel had been so gross that although he had accepted the apology of the individual who was r( sponsible for its utterance, he had. in justice to himself and hi* own reputation, been obliged io take- pre eding against the newspaper which published the libel. He hud adopted this course with regret, but there was a limit to which even a public man could be subjected with disregard by himself. The announcement made by the Prime Minister appeared io create f. pn. f’.'.md impression in the attentive benches. ”1 am crcditabl'. ini' rmed thai the newspaper referred to is the ‘Otaki Mail-’