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[ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, COPTRIGHT.j [I'Ml PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) THE BRISBANE LIBEL ACTION. Brisbane, This Day. The libel action Donhani v. Ecrricks is proceeding. Defendant denied that when returning thanks at the poll he charged the Hon. Mr. D. Dcnham with using Government money to fight the Labour party. What he said wa"s that public money had been used, and he referred to Mr Donham's use of special trains. Witness when cross-examined, said that certain papers had not reported the remark accurately. He never troubled to correct mistakes made in the press. He quoted transactions by Denham Bros, to show that the present system of distribution Avas a large factor in the increased cost of living. A MELBOURNE LIBEL CASE. Melbourne, This Day. An unusual type of libel case lias been heard in the County Court. Elorence Mabel Webbe, of Waverley, Sydney, claimed .tMOOU from the newspaper Age as damages for libel. The facts were that Mrs Webb, formerly Miss Hobson, had married MiNicholas Percy Webbe, a professional shorthand writer and formerly a member of the Federal Hansard stall' and a well-known oarsman, on January Bth, 1912. About June, 1912, Mr Webbe and his wife took a residence at Waverley, near Sydney. They had no children, but on March 24th, 191 o, a death notice appeared in the age, purporting to announce the death of an elcven-months-old son of Mr Webbe ana his wife at their residence at Waverley. Plaintiff's counsel said the advertisement conveyed the impression that a child had been born about April, 1912, and might convey the further impression that misconduct had taken place between Mr and Mrs Webbe before marriage.
The defence was that the advertisement was not defamatory either to those knowing- nothing of the parties or to those intimately acquainted with them. The Age received a copy of an advertisement purporting to be-signed by Nicholas P. Webbe, and taking it as genuine, inserted it. The plaintiff gave evidence that she had not authorised the advertisement, and in any case the form of her husband's signature on the marriage certificate was nothing like the signature on the advertisement. Edward Shaw, handwriting expert, gave evidence that he thought the signature of Nicholas P. Webbe on the marriage register and on the two copies of the advertisement were written by the same man. The case was adjourned. It is stated that the same advertisement appeared in the Argus. OBITUARY. Sir Robert Ball, the famous astronomer and Director of Gambridge Observatory.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 November 1913, Page 3
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417Australian Cables. Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 November 1913, Page 3
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