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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2272, 14 July 1881, Page 3

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[PEB PBE3B ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, July 14, A Contrite Heart. The criminal prosecution for libel instituted by W. E. Hurst against W. D. Wickham has ended in the latter pleading guilty and tendering an abject written apology, in which he acknowledges the defamatory statements made by him against

Hurst to be false and without the slightest foundation. Ho binds himself to pay £2O towards the prosecutor’s expenses, and regrets that he is not in a position to pay more. He alio undertakes to refrain from publishing criticisms on Hurst for tho future. The apology was accepted. The Judge, in passing sentence, told the defendant that had the c .se gone to the jury the consequences would have been serious for him, and his conduct in publishing libels on Hurst was utterly indefensible. Fined Is and costs impored. WANGANUI, July 14. Sporting. Tho Wanganui Spring Meeting is fixed for October 21st, and permanently on tho Friday before tho fourth Monday in October. The programme is the same as last year. Stakes* £340, and the principal handicap will bo £l5O Tho nominations on tho 23rd September, and tho dates for the Autumn Meeting are fixed for the second Thursday and Friday in March, 1883. Details of the programme are held over for a fortnight, but it is expected t o bo the same as laot year. The annual ir.ect'.r gof the Jockey (Tub was held last night. The balance-sheet shows the receipts to be £3615, and expenditure £3631 ; consisting of stakes, £3747 ; chargee, £378 ; improvement!!, £357 j and sundrier, £137. Over £3300 has been spent in improvements during the last three years. The assets of the club show £2734 over tho liabilities. Thera was a largo attendance of members at the meeting. DUNEDIN, July 14. The Charles Worsley. No fresh case of sickness having occurred, tho passengers by the Charles Worsloy, and the ship, are to be admitted to pratique on Saturday forenoon.