A FIJI LIBEL CASE.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY BEFORE THE COURT. Sydney, December 1The general secretary of the Australasian Wssleyan Missionary Society has received intelligence of the termination of a trial in Fiji, which has excited a good deal of interest in this colony. The action was instituted by some Roman" Catholic priests against the Rev. J 0. Chapman, a Wesleyan missionary inFrji, for libel and slander, and was tried before the Chief Justice, 10 days elapsing before the case was finished. Mr Solomon appeared for the plaintiffs, and the At-torney-General for defendant; the result being a verdict for defendant on all issues. The alleged libel appeared in a letter from Mr Chapman to the " Australasian Missionary Review," which w|g published in November, 1892, the wortS complained of being, "We passed""HSl priests' new house, which is beihg erected of concrete. We would like to give the work of the girls, but forbear," the defence being that the words complained of alluded to the word of carrying up concrete and lime, in which the girls wore employed.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7698, 4 December 1893, Page 2
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174A FIJI LIBEL CASE. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7698, 4 December 1893, Page 2
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