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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3744, 16 July 1883, Page 2

It will be seen by our Gisborno telegram that the editor and proprietor of Facts ;iro to be prosecuted for libel, and tho case ie to come on to-day. This action will have a special interest of its own. Mr W. L. Roes has instituted the suit on account of an article published in last Friday's Facts, one of three, we presume, bearing on tho Native Lands Settlement Company. In ono of those articles the following occurs : — " Well, we are certain the parties feeling aggrieved will not prosecute us for libel. Will not attempt anything of the kind ; or, if they do attempt it, will never go into Court with it. Wo dare thorn to try it. We tell them, well! if you don , t prosecute usfor libel you tacitly admitthat what we havo said to be true—and if you do prosecute us for libel we will prove everything we have said to be true, so you can take your choice. Wo taunt them with cowardice in holding back from such action." After this, of course, there could bo nothing else to do but to prosecute, and as Facts lias alleged that the company has been fraudulent in its dealings with the natives we may expect some interesting evidence should the accused be committed for trial beforo the Supreme Court.