A Northera Libel Suit

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1511, 19 December 1905, Page 2

A Northera Libel Suit

Wake Versus MaGKsr>zi3

By Tolegrapli.—Press Asaociation. Auokl/And, this day. The libol. action brought by I'heophilne Wake, wlio stood for Parliament, against Francis MioEoiizie, proprietor of the Nortlitm Lumiuanj, a claim for £IOOO for the publication of statetuenta implying, Wako to bo guilty of crime, that he (led from justice, that ho desorlodliis wife, and that ho was liufis to sit in Parliament, was heard at. tho Supreme Court yesterday, The deforce was a denial, aud a speech by Mr, BJlcKfinzie m:Haimrdol Sapterabor 15tb, 1898, wai quoted, It onnhinod statements whioli defendant believed tobetruo. Thodefericp'further accused plaintiff of seduction at Tiniavu, and of cohabiting with a native woman, and paid 20j into tho Court as soffloiont damages.

Plaintiff, in the witnoss box, denied that he cohabitedai ullogod, and as to e'eduction said ho was acensedof it, and went to Timaru with Mr.'T. E. Taylor and others to inquire into it, Asked if be had satisfied them, ho said ho did not 'attempt to do so, ami never asked thotn, Ho deniod ,tbnt bcoiinso ho failed ho hadti'discoatiiiuo working for tho temperance party, nor was il booauso of this, ho wont to Tasmania;. Evidcnoo was given as to' this incident, and by some natives as to plaintiff's relations with a Maori girl, and tho jury returned a verdiot for AT damages,, Tho question of costs was reserved.