LONG-TONGUED RUMOUR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 1911, Page 2

LONG-TONGUED RUMOUR.

An inquiry was held at Otaki, last evening, ('oncoming a matter wliicili, Iras been the subject of iMiinour and ; scandal for several months past. The : tribunal sot up comprised three .ministers of religion, .two solicitors, and a Oivil Servant. The inquiry was specially notable from the fact that no single accuser of the citizen accused came forward to make a charge against iliim. We have the information from one who was present at i last night's proceedings that three witnesses for the defence testified) on oath, before the tribunal of inquiry, that the young lady whose name was mixed up in the charges had not been outside of her home on the Sunday night mentioned in the charges; also that Dr. Huthwaite, of Otalri, professionally vouched on 11th Marc# that the same accused was virgo intacta. These are not the topics that a. newspaper cares to descant upon, but the spirit of fairness to all for which all reputable journals stand up compels us to make public mention of these facts, w/Mclli are « 1 tho effective,replies for the defence.

to the whispered prosecutions of anonymous slanderers. A public advertisement on the subject appeal's iu to-day's Chronicle.