Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1097, 18 August 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1871.

In the Resident Magistrates Court .this morning, the usual fine of 5s was indicted in a case of drunkenness.— Henry Dyer Maddock, solicitor, was charged before H. B. Sealy, Esq., R.M,; R. Stuart, Esq , J.P.; and J. A. Smith, Esq., J.P., with having on the 15th of August, unlawfully assaulted one Richard Halkett Lord, by striking him twice with a riding-whip. Mr Mad dock admitted the assault, but pleaded justification. He said he had been subjected to a series of low and dastardly insults in a scurrilous paper edited by the plaintiff, called the Daily Telegraph. Not only himself, but the gentlemen holding the commission of the peace, and the ladies of Napier had also been grossly insulted in the columns of that J>aper. [The Bench advised Mr Maddock to confine his statement to those matters with which he was personally concerned ] He said it was not necessary to produce the paper, as the facts ;were sufficiently patent to all in Court. liisplea was that the assault was justified under the circumstances. Mr Lord, sworn, deposed : I was on the green on t}ie day of the spoits, when Mr Maddock came behind me with a ridingwhip and struck me twice. I seized the whip, when he succeeded in scratch in'g my face. lam editor and managing director of the Daily Telegraph, and (Consider myself responsible for its con ifcents. If necessary, I can justify every statement it has made in reference to Mr Macldock. Mr Lord then called the following evidence : F. Sutton, sworn, deposed : I saw Mr Maddock assault Mr Lord with a whip on the Hat. He attacked him from behind, and struck twice before he could turn round.—John Brewer, sworn, deposed : i W«.t.. v. ■ ' . ' A • . •