PRIEST SUED FOR LIBEL.
SEVEN RULES OF JEHOVAH."
JURY AWARDS £5 DAMAGES.
[by teleghavh.—press association*.] Masterton*, Friday. A UNIQUE libel .action was heard in the Supreme Court' to-day before. the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), when a local native named TaivvhioTe Tan claimed £501 damages for libel against Father De Lach, a well-known Roman Catholic missionary priest, on account of an article published in the Moori paper Whare Kuia, of which defendant is editor.
Plaintiff is head and bishop of a religious organisation known as "The Seven Rules of Jehovah," and as such wears a garb which resembles the bishop attire of the Anglican Church. Defendant published a statement in Whare Kuia, which was held to ridicule the bishop," alleging that he " was a wood-hen in peacock s feathers."
Tho jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and awarded £5 damages. Costs were allowed on the lowest scale..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15110, 28 September 1912, Page 8
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