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Dunstan Times, Issue 1006, 29 July 1881, Page 3

The criminal prosecution for libel, instituted at Auckland by Mr W. J. Hurst agaiust Mr J. D. Wickham, baa ended by the defendant pleading guilty and tendering an abject written apology, in which he acknowledges the defamatory statements made by him against Mr Hurst to be false, without the slightest foundation. He binds himself to pay L2O towards the prosecutor’s expenses, whilst regretting that he is not in a position to pay more, and undertakes to refrain from publishing criticisms on Mr Hurst for the future. The apology was accepted. Judge Gillies, in passing sentence, told the defendant that had the case gone to a jury the consequences would have been serious for him as his conduct in publishing the libel on Mr Hurst was utterly indefensible. A fine of Is and costs was imposed.

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Mr J. (1. Bennett enjoys an income of half-a-raillion and upwards a-year from his newspaper (“New York Herald”) and other property. Fe manages to get rid of his money in a very free and easy manner. He is domiciled at Pau at present. Lately he hired Strauss, of Vienna, and his entire orchestra of 80 performers, to come to that p ace and play for the benefit of his own solitary self for one month, for which he paid the moderate sum of 28.000 dollars. As a contemporary puts it, “ He presented a picture of royal jollity which will make Old King Cole of the ballad sing very small.’’ On the other hand, it is not long since a New York paper made out that Mr J. G. Bennett is not by any means liberal to the men whose brains make the “Herald ” a leading journal.