MAN CALLED A MONGREL
DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. A case arising out of an exhibition of sapphires at Wembley occupied the courts, when Harry .McRae Burnside, formerly in business in Australia, and trading in England since 1920 as Burnside and Co., sued Mrs E. M. Jenkins and her husband for alleged libel. Plaintiff said that Mrs Jenkins wrote to Mr 11. Knowles, the Queensland Government’s gem expert, calling Burnside a mongrel, and describing bis exhibit as a disgrace to Queensland. It was also suggested that the gems wore reconstructed sapphires. Counsel said that Mrs Jenkins honestly believed what she wrote.
A term like mongrel, counsel added, would be used almost as a term of endearment by Australians. Burnside was awarded £I,OOO damages.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19270604.2.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3647, 4 June 1927, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121MAN CALLED A MONGREL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3647, 4 June 1927, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in