PATEA.
This Day. William Dale, junr. , auctioneer, and active politician, commenced criminal proceedings against Kdward Houghton, proprietor of the Mail, fop publishing an alleged malicious and defamatory libel by reporting a conversation ho h.nl with a ratepayer, which damaged his chance of election to the Mayoralty. Mr. Dale denied that the conversation took place. The ratepayer was in Court to swear to it as substantially true. Tho investigation in the 11. M. Court occupied two days. After the prosecutor's case closed, the defendant, who conducted his own case, made an address alleging reasonable giounds to believe the nlleged libel was true, that as it related to important public matters, it was justified by the occasion, and that there was no malice intended. The Magistrate's then dismissed the case without requiring evidence for defence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1476, 14 November 1881, Page 2
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133PATEA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1476, 14 November 1881, Page 2
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