PRESS TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4306, 15 March 1901, Page 3

PRESS TELEGRAMS.

j PREACH OF COPYRIGHT. i INJUNCTION AGAINST A NEWSPAPER FIRM- , In the .Supremo Com I yesterday, he- / fore Mr Justice Edwards, a motion was heard in the notion between the Un'ted Pre-- Association. Limited, plain'iff. I and John Robert Nicol and George V.’illiam Nicol, of Greyto.vn, proprietor- of f the '• Wairaraoa Siandard and Feathersten Advocate/’ defendants, r Mr .Myers appeared for the plain tiff t company, and Mr Izard for the do:cne diints. The statement of claim set out I hat I- in June. 1900, the plaintiff company , found that the defendants were copying , and publishing in their newspaper new.-. - supplied by the plaintiff company to 1. newspapers suh'-( rihing .or thowune. Tlio defendants wen' written to, and warn, ed again';! the continuance of the prac- . tire. They replied to the plaintiff company's solicitors in. the following terms ; —" Yours of the Pith to hand. We have already given the assurance . asked for to the Press Association, and, i not having to our knowledge made any infringement of tlio Act sine.’, cannot understand another assurance being asked for. .Wo may, however, state that we are perfectly willing to abstain from c (fending against the .statute, and you can am-pt our assurance to this effect.” On several occasions after Juno, 1900, the defendants, notwithstanding the warning: to and undertaking hy them, copied and published in their newspaper nows supplied to the plaintiff company ami published in newspapers subscribing a.nd paying for such news to the plaintiff company. On each such occasion the news was contained in a telegram lawfully received by the plaintiff company from a place outside the colony far publication, and was published hy the plaintiff company hi newspapers sub- * scribing for the tame to the plaintiff company, and on such occasions the . telegrams published were printed in j various newspapers and in particular in tlio “Now Zealand Times,” published at Wellington, with the beading ‘■ Jsy Electric Telegraph, Copyright,” and bearing the date and hour of their receipt. On each such occasion the defen- < (hints printed and published the con- j tents of such telegrams or the sun- • stance thereof, or extracts therefrom, 1 within a period of eighteen hours from \ the first publication in such, newspapers, J and within a period of twenty-four hours , from the times of the receipt of the ; telegrams. Among the items of news ■ were the results of the, races for the 1 Caulfield Cup, the V.R.C. Derby and c the Melbourne Cup, the opening of the > trial of Jimmy Governor in Sydney, the ' doings of Air Kruger, the eases of beer- 1 poisoning in England, and the occur- * renco of plague at Thursday Island. ! An injunction against the defendants f was consented to and granted.

Costs £l3 13s, with disbursements were ordered against the defendants.