BOGUS ADVERTISEMENT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4699, 28 November 1913, Page 7

BOGUS ADVERTISEMENT.

£4OO DAMAGES. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright Melbourne, Last Night. In the County Court the libel action Florence Mabel Webbe, of Waverley,., Sydney, who claimed £IOOO from the newspaper Age, as damages, was concluded. Plaintiff’s counsel objected to tne evdence of the liandwritng expert as inadmissible. One of the defences, he said, was that the advertisement had been published at the request of Mrs Webbe or her husband. As far as Mrs Webbe was concerned that was all right, but regarding the husband, some authority must be shown from the wife to insert the advertisement, before the expert’s evidence was admissible.

After considerable argument, the Judge rejected this evidence. The Judge, in summing up, said: “Nobody reading the advertisement and having no knowledge of the circumstances could possibly have seen a libel therein. However, I direct you that it can lie libellous; it is for you to' say whether it is a libel on plaintiff. The damage seems to me to be limited to people who were aware of the circumstances. This is not an ordinary libel in which one man blackguards another; you have to be behind the scenes in this to measure reasonable compensation for damage to a person’s reputation. It involves a sort of guesswork. Further, this kind of libel had no effect on intimate friends, as had been shown by the evidence. Defendant contended that the advertisement had lieen published at the request of plaintiff or her husband. That was something like a plea of justification, but it had failed.” The Judge added that he failed to see what defence there was.

The jury awarded £4OO damages, with costs. Stay of proceedingjs was granted, and it is understood an appeal will be lodged.

DRINKING WITH MEALS CAUSES INDIGESTION. “You should never drink with meals if you are troubled with indigestion,” I was told at a time when I could hardly eat a meal without suffering afterwards. I followed the advice rigidly and, although I was somewhat relieved. still suffered a good deal. I tried several patent medicines, but without any beneficial effect until a medical friend recommended taking about half a teaspoonful of ordinary bisurated magnesia in half a cupful of warm water after each meal and at bedtime. The result was wonderful. The bisurated magnesia entirely counteracted the acidity in the stomach, which causes dyspepsia ; relief came almost immediately, and 1 am now able to eat, drink and enjoy my meals without bad effects. Drinking with my meals does not worry me now. In case any readers would like to try this excellent remedy, which l understand relieves all kinds of indigestion just as effectually as it did mine, I may add that it is obtainable from any chemist, but I strongly advise anyone trying it to make perfectly sure they get the bisurated magnesia, other forms not being suitable for this purpose. E.T.G.