THE HOWARD ELLIOTT ASSAULT CASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10113, 22 October 1917, Page 3

THE HOWARD ELLIOTT ASSAULT CASE.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 21. The charge against' 1 Christopher Charles Clements of assaulting the Uov. Howard Klliott was njentioned in the Police Court 'yesterday,' when an application. was made for a longer adjournment. Air Reed, Tv.o., stated that the defence was one of extreme provocation, and it was intended to obtain evidence that a slanderous statement had been made publicly’by Klliott. and also that the statements made were without warrant. It was necessary to obtain part of the evidence given before the Post Office Commission, and also to obtain evidence' f rom Tanmarnnui. The Inspector of Police opposed tho application on the ground that so far as he' was concerned tho matter was merely one ol assault, and that the matters mentioned by Mr Heed did not concern the question of whether or not an assault had been committed. II is Worship remarked that as the outstanding facts of the assault were candidly admitted and ihe defence was provocation, it was only fair to give flic defendant an opportunity to prove the provocation.' Of course, there was a question of how far .it was proper to admit evidence applicable to an action for slander in the course ol what was merely a prosecution for assault. His Worship agreed to lei the ease stand fill Tuesday, the day of the original remand, on the understanding that a remand till Wednesday week would ho gran ted.