Libel Action Probable against the Dunedin Star.
(From our Parliamentary Special) , (By Telegraph.) WELLINGTON, August 14. • Mr Fislier, M.H.R., who brought the charges against Captain' Seddon, waited npbn/ r fche 'Auditor-General • to-day, and 1 , handed to that official the sealed envelope centaining the three affidavits which were' a feature -of the sensational incidents before Parliament last week. ' It is tinderstood that the three members of the civil' service who made affidavits on the subject. , of the lalleged -payment to Captain Seddon -are' about ■to''- petition' Parliament to "be" .heard Before the inquiry.'. One, if' not air of them, is in the Post Office at Christ-" church, where all three reside, and one is said/to Ixe a- lieutenant in "the Volunteer; • Corps of which- Mr Fisher ' was formerly' captain. ■.'■'••,- » It iss said that Mr T. E. Taylor, M.H.R.,' intends to bring" an action for" libel against the, proprietors ■■of the Dunedin StarT, on account of references made" to him in a letter -.published in last -Thursday's.- issue, of that papfK- ••" .- '" "' • ' '
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11637, 15 August 1905, Page 6
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169Libel Action Probable against the Dunedin Star. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11637, 15 August 1905, Page 6
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