LIBELLING SIR J. VOGEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7760, 5 October 1886, Page 5

LIBELLING SIR J. VOGEL.

[B7 telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Monday. The libel action, Sir J. Vogel v. A, J. Uoskins, proprietor of a small society paper named the Wellington Advertiser, has been withdrawn, the accused having signed the following apology :—" To the Hon. Sir J. Vogel,— beg to apologise to yon for the publication in the Wellington Advertiser, of the 17th July, ISS6, of an article and a cartoon, by which yon were charged with corrupt and improper conduct in connection with the purchase of certain district railway companies debentures, and ' I bee unreservedly to withdraw the imputation con' veyed against you by those publications, for which I am nominally responsible.—Arthur James Hoskins."

The judge, in referring to this cue In his charge to the grand jury, said there were two things for the jury to consider, viz., the article which appeared in the Advertiser, and a cartoon published in the same paper. The article in question was headed, " Parliamentary scandal," and had reference to the Waimate railway. His Honor instructed the jury that if the article was merely a narration of condemnatory opinion expressed by the Parliamentary Committee, and if the article only reiterated these opinions, in perhaps somewhat different language, it was privileged.