ACTION FOR LIBEL.
[Pee Press Association.} NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 19. Writs have been served on the proprietor of the Taranaki Herald and Budget andP. P.Corkhill. Deputy Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, at the suit of John Mynott for libel. The cause of the action is an advertisement consisting of an apology from a man named John Hooper to Corkhill for signing a petition brought to him by Mynott ; also the publishing by the papers of a report of the proceedings in the House when Mr Samuel referred to the same and read an apology given by Hooper. Plaintiff claims damages at £SOO from each. Mr Samuel has been retained by the defendants. The Herald on Saturday last published, as an advertisement, a letter from Hooper to Mynott, in which he retracts portions of tbe apology to Cprkhill. Corkhill, in another advertisement, states that the assertl of Hooper are untrue, and were obtains! under threat of action, at the time when he detention of Hooper in New Zealand would have seriously inconvenienced him. Hooper left the Colony last week for Australia.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8903, 20 September 1889, Page 5
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179ACTION FOR LIBEL. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8903, 20 September 1889, Page 5
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