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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 420, 23 December 1884, Page 6

\ Messr3 Chapman and Fitzgerald, 'solicitors I for the proprietor of the 'New Zealand Tim«s' . < on Thursday accepted service o£ a writ,, and. statement of claim at the suit of Sir Julius . Vogel, claiming to recoYer Ll o,ooo, Upon' each of the two counts alleging that certain articles and telegrams which have from time t to time recsntly appeared in that paper onthe subjeot of the Consolidated Telephone ' Company are libellous. Decline op Man.— Nervous weakness, dyspepsia, impotence, sexual debilitcuredy by " Weils's Hea.'th Benewer," Druggist&4Keoopthorne, Prosser, and Co., agents, Christ-, obm-oh. The meeting of the Otago Education Board on Thursday was very lively. Mr John McKenaie, M.H.R, made tbe following motion— "That in the interest of education as entrusted to this Board, and of decency and order rs affecting thai interest, itis imf;poitant that eveiy member should be jcouiweously piotqotedin his due liberty- of action and speeoh." He made a Jepofchy {naeeoh, rearing to the attitude assumed by other membeis towards him, and justifying his remarks iu Parliament about the Board's affaivs being controlled by a ring. The Rey Er MacGregor, who alone supported the j motion, said Mr MoKenzie had three times * ' lit lest meeting been called an habitual liar and he had a right to rebut such insinuations* The motion was lost by fire to two in faror, of an amendment expressing confidence in the impartiality of the chairman, Profewor' Shand, and asking Uv McKen^e tb w*v&