SPREADING A FALSE REPORT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2472, 27 May 1915, Page 9

SPREADING A FALSE REPORT

>1 A CASE DISMISSED. t©\ it (By Telegraph—Press Association.) _ T Christchurch, May 28. Tho Court to-day resumed tho hearini of the charge against William SigglekoT of spreading, on. May 1, a false repor that the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd Contingents ha< been wiped out. Tho statement is al j leged to havo been made during dinne: r ' at a boardinghouse. The principal wit ness alleged that accu'sxl, who is a lino ■ e type operator, • often made disloya j. speeches. Counsel for defence said that j since May 1, the paper had been full o J calamitous lists of casualties, and even i j. Sigglekow had giv >ji a highly colourei version of the probabilities, he dida' come within the Act. On giving judgment, the jMagisiirati , said that there was no doubt in his mini that Sigglekow acted a. littb more ex travagantly than he admitted he did His words should have been used wit! 1 more caution, or he might have sail more than* he thought he did His Woi ship thought that whatever Sigglekow dii ' say was addressed to his wife, to his wif le only, and was not intended for othe I s people to hear. The charge was Ais r ' missed. 1, ===== Jo Lost children in Japan do nol lon| ia remain astray. It is the _ custom fo parents to. label their children. ■ witl their addresses so that ill case the; wander any wayfarer may send then home. To-morrow, commencing at 10.30 a.m poultry-keepers and others should not st that Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co.' wil 53 sell, by public auction, the complet [t stock, plant, furniture, ate,, of Mr. .) ly JI. Ferguson, at his poultry ranch Q "Moera," Trontliam. Over 1500 head o r. poultry of all varieties, all pure stock n also 7 Buffalo Model Cypher incubators 11 horses, carts, and harness will be offered S3 This ranch Is well known, and the auc do tioneers 'instructions are 'to sell.