A. Reckless Libel.
• Writes the London correspondent of the Post— As an instance of the mischief that may be wrought through public men making recklessly extravagant statements, I may mention that an extract from a recent speech of Sir William Fox's at Plymouth, m which he said that New Zealand was a colony "cursed by the vice of peveistant drinking and going downhill m consequence," has been the round of fully fifty or sixty provincial papers adorned with such head-lines as " A Drunken Colony," "New Zealand Cursed with Strong Prink," ''Drunkenness in Now Zealand," &c. J?epplc who do not know that Sir W. Fox is a bigoted teetotnller naturally attach considerable importance to these allegations, corning as they dp from one clearly a distinguished colonist. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 2
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125A. Reckless Libel. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 2
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