COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL FOR LIBEL.
Gisborne, This day,
Kenneth Kerr, the reputed proprietor of a paper called Facts was this morning committed for trial for publishing a defamatory libel on Mr W. L. Rees, reflecting on his Una fides as connected with the business of the Nativo Land Company. The libel complained of appeared in an article in the newspaper called Facts, published on the Cth instant, the purport of which was that the Pouawa block, in common with the Paremata, Waimate, Kaiti, Mangahia No. 1, and other blocks claimed by the New Zealand Settlement Company, were obtained by fraud and perjury. The magistrate said to his mind a very gross libel had been published on Mr Rccs. An information was also laid against the printer, Mr C. H. C. Webb, but Mr Rees being absent when the case was called on, it was struck out.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3745, 17 July 1883, Page 3
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146COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL FOR LIBEL. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3745, 17 July 1883, Page 3
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