THE CONWAY CASE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 May 1901, Page 3

THE CONWAY CASE.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.-COPYRIGHT.) Sydney, May 3, The hearing of the application on behalf of Jane Smith for the attachment of Watkin Wynne, publisher of the Daily Telegraph, in connection with the Conway case, is proceeding in the full Court. The Chief Justice asked, as Smith had again to stand her trial, was an application of this sort not likely to do a great deal of mischief. The papers could not be stopped publishing these proceedings. Counsel for applicant said that as the object was to prevent further publication and keep the administration of justice pure, they preferred to go on with the matter.

In the contempt cases affidavits of the sub-editor of the Daily Telegraph and of Wynn show that the matter complained of appeared inadvertently, and steps' were immediately taken to prevent anything of a like nature again appearing.

The Chief Justice in delivering judgment suid that the paragraph did, at the time of publication, tend to interfere with the administration of justice; but he could net see that any mischief would now follow from the article, it having appeared before the first trial, whereas the jury disagreed. The Telegraph had been technically guilty of contempt, but he came to the conclusion that he aught not to inflict any punishment, Justice would be met by ordering each parry to pay their own costs. Similar others were made in regar d to the Newcastle Morning Herald, the As tralian Star and the Sunday Times.