THE WELLINGTON ZOO CASE.

West Coast Times, 17 March 1910, Page 4

THE WELLINGTON ZOO CASE.

HEAVY DAMAGES CLAIMED,

[BY TELEGRAPH —lER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, March 16. Before the Chief Justice to-day, Robert Beetling (Speriutendent Wellington Zoo) claimed two thousand pounds from John Norton (proprietor of Truth) for alleged libel. The case wag tried before a special jury. Defendant denied that the words complained of reflected on the plaintiff in his occupation, or that they had been published falsely or maliciously or were libellous or defamatory, and that in their natural ordinary significance they were true, in substance and in fact.

It was stated that an aoplogy had been published, which was said by plaintiff to be no apology at all, but a case of adding insult to Injury. The case is proceeding. LATER. The libel case, Bertling v. Norton, was not concluded when the Court rose for the day.