GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 11542, 29 November 1900, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. An action was heard by the Chief Justice, to-day, in which J. R. Skelley, commercial traveller, sued W. J. Geddis, publisher of the Free Lance, an illustrated paper, for £1000 damages for the publication of a cartoon which the plaintiff interpreted! as representing that he was endeavouring to pass a valueless cheque. Defendant denied that the portrait in the cartoon was it eant for the plaintiff, or that the cartoon would bear the meaning put upon it. The jury returned a verdict in favom of the defendant upon all the issues. Judgment was entered aceoidingly, with costs according to scale. At a meeting of Island Bay residents tonight there was a unanimous feeling in favour of laying a tramway to connect' the district with the city. The length of line necessary would be over two miles. It was agreed by the meeting that it was desirable that the Island Bay Ward of the Melrose Borough should raise monev by special loan in order to lay half of the line, which would be leased to the Wellington City Council at a nominal rent on certain conditions, one of them being that the bay residents should be given concessions in fares. Nailer. Wednesday. Mr. Edmond Smith, well known in shipping circles in New Zealand, as a stevedore of the Shaw-Savill line, died to-day. ' Dcnem.v, Wednesday. Lord Ranfurly paid a visit of inspection to the Industrial School and gaol to-day. Large, numbers of country visitors and j others arrived to-day for the show and races, ! including evidently* some undesirable characters, several pockets having been picked about the railway station. The-weather promises to be fine. , The Hon. J. G. Ward arrived from the South to-day. He paid a. visit to Taieri Beach, and saw several deputations. ~