DIBBS-GARRETT SCENE.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
A DEMORALISED P.
[press association.] Sydney, February 25. It is stated that the Reform Club intend to take notice of the Dibbs-Garrett scene in the House on Thursday, both being members of the club.
Mr. Garrett has served a writ on Mr. Dibbs for £10,000 for damages for accusing him of drunkenness. In order to test the grounds for the charge, Mr. Garrett proposes that if Mr. Dibbs will waive the plea of privilege, which as a member of Parliament he is entitled to raise, he will pay all the costs of the action. Mr. Dibbs has not made any reply, and it is thought improbable that be will accept the challenge. The late Attorney-General, Mr. B. R. Wise, referring to the recent discreditable episodes in the House, in the course of a speech to his constituents, said none who had been in the House during the past week, could leave it without a burning feeling of shame and discouragement, almost amounting to despair. Obscene language was freely used. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8987, 27 February 1888, Page 5
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