ALLEGED SLANDER.

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13655, 24 August 1916, Page 2

ALLEGED SLANDER.

I SHEEP FARMERS IN COURT, COLLAPSE OP CASE. ' ' (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August. 23, In the Supreme Court, to-day, Edward Gerald De Mey sued Roderick Dickson Harkn'ess for 1501 damages for alleged slander/ The parties are farmers at Tehoro, and the trouble'arose out of'a statement alleged to have been made by Hnrkness to Mcy; that "You are afraid 1 to sell sheep at Otaki and Waikanae. You took Ryder's sheep," George Ernest Bills, a youth, in whoso presence plaintiff said defendant had made the statement complained of, gave evidence, denying that he had heard the words. He had signed a statement that such words had 1 been used, but now denied that this was true, The Judge declared there was no proof of publication and non-suited plaintiff, with costs,