SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 28 June 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

A MISTAKEN SLANDER

[Per Press Association.] Gisborne, June 27. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Cooper, a claim of £5Ol damager for slander was brought by Wi Paraire, a native clergyman, against Meretene Te Ariki Huka, a native woman of Mihaka, who had stated that the clergyman was the father of the child of Te Wai, an unmarried native woman. The case came to a. satisfactory conclusion, the charge being unreservedly withdrawn. His Honor announced that the charge was being withdrawn, arid made the following note: “Mr Blair, solicitor for the defendant, at this stage withdraws the plea of justification, and admits that the plaintiff is not the father of the child of Te Wai, and expresses the defendant’s regret that she made the statement and that until the evidence was given to-day, she honestly believed it, but now is satisfied that it was not correct, and freely and voluntarily withdraws it. Mr Burnard (solicitor for the plaintiff) accepts this apology and , withdrawal, and by consent of both parties, the rase is withdrawn and struck out without costs.”