THE LATE MIDNIGHT FREAK.
■■>'■• T/0 IHB EDITOR.' ' . : . SiR,--I.aee by your paper that both Mr. Decimus Atkinson and Mr. Richmond Hdrsthbuse have written letters denying befng"preserit on the occasion of the attempt to pull down the arch •preoted. as ; a welcome to Sir George Grey ; and yet the News publishes a document copi.ed from the police book, stating that those two gentlemen were present, and also that they took part in the affair. By publishing • that document,. 'ybar" 1 contemporary becomes liable to be. prosecuted fpr libel, and if Mr. D. Atkinson and Mr. Richmond Hursthouse wish to clear themselves from the charge, they have now an opportunity' 1 of doing so ; otherwise the public here will be. inclined to;believe. tho police report in preference to the bare word 1 of either of them.—l am, &c, . Justice.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2749, 18 February 1878, Page 2
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THE LATE MIDNIGHT FREAK.
Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2749, 18 February 1878, Page 2
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