AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9109, 8 June 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A MISSING STEAMER. HOHART, June 6. Further search for the Orion revealed further wreckage. The theory set up is that the steamer was run down in the Straits by some sailing vessel. A woman living on Flinders Island etates that on the night the vessel was supposed to have been lost she saw rockets for about ten minutes. The night was a fearful one. AN IMPORTANT CASE. Received June 8, 1.9 a.m. SYDNEY, June 7. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has delivered judgment in the case of Macintosh v. Dunn, an appeal from the decision of the High Court of Australia. The case was one of the most important tried here, and involved a question of privilege in regard to the right of publication by defendants of certain mercantile reports to subscribers, in which they made statements as to plaintiff's business. Defendants pleaded privilege, but the Court gave plaintiff a verdict for £BOO. An appeal to the Full Court decided that defendants were privileged. An appeal followed to the High Court, which held that it was a privileged case. Then the case went to the Privy Council, with the result that the original verdict for plaintiff stands.