BIRTHS S AND DEATHS
STATISTICS SHOW IMPEOYED POSITION. The vital statistics for the Wellington district for the eight, months, of the present year show an improvement. on the tares- for the corresponding period of S year There have been more births and fewer deaths. The figures are:-^ Births Vm ..1.«3 Deaths : #? •■, 6 . 8 ° - Marriage- notices ~ . 698. ..-.-«« The figures for August of this year ana August oflast year-are :-p - ■ --. 7 * ." August; August, ■ . 1917.. -1916 . Births- '•••■ • 211 - 223 Deaths ; - f-- - Marriage, notices <° - " ALLEGED LIBEL * ■ ■PLAINTIFF NONSUITED.' .' . By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, August 31. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) t<wlay nonsuited G. S. Chapman, who claimed £1500 from the "Tribune , newspaper for alleged libel, contained in live anonymous letters. The Chief-Justice held the letters to bo fair comment. Costs were awarded on the usual scale for the defendant. Stay.of,execution fur fourteen days was granted in view of an appeal. ' ' ■ " -'
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3179, 1 September 1917, Page 6
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146BIRTHS SAND DEATHS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3179, 1 September 1917, Page 6
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