Wanganui Supreme Court.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1459, 19 September 1885, Page 3

Wanganui Supreme Court.

„ . -.»...^_^,. SENTENCE. ' '^Tlje^pVwOneV'Bi'aHif^y, was brought "up < ' : for ! -«f<iVteri6fev HfiiJ^'oifoK sentenced m m ' i fo»-foiif nibnthW i'tiipn^i'nietil with ? h'arVr' A •■' lftbi>ur;' hiid* iti ■■*^Iftj^*\'"'sd^^saijf"* s i[iei'hfC(3* •■'iiniide'-vt ; ex'ceptHTti'ftTry "liglff : 6u J Sccdiyfjtl of _ I lie cliiuacter,. prisoner : li ith drto ; t»6.V ijf ie; „' J'J'i "\".\ ■..?/' ;,l'.'.. t u- ''..('.'. ; LIBEL^CASB. V a, f^ostjjfird^e^t j Iby f jliii^ef^ftdant , to •; .i- :{\li;ißarn]cpat-£oi'!tlie^kintd(£>; ami Mr?: iifiEituliterUett for .tht^dtsfcndaM'l • ••■ • ■ - ; ' ->if iJfK* BSniSbliV'' o£erf&P ''tfre^casß- by ; v 4li a ! |: ' c 'rWow§ :'*'l yo«?r. jgioffjie !no&^ nnd am not at all surprised "'af its fc«n- --' "TPlTfgTfftT 1 "a p.crsoii wlio.has xolibctd his... I » t.-2dMH^t^vi\/e v i.a^iu^»lln ! (^6iiMgli Vo 1 IRdW ff tf f 1 &W& i st dV t; r.ttt-inea\i' j tp,:ji^: von are so bad ; I only went payment ' 3oTiiye""tp'mi'cli. lam jHol ep hard up. or '^TMwk.&Vb^^^i^i-.ky own kvUyW^tt^J.^, djejjfe^^hjpjiv^loug.. I%^itsince you had— poor beggar — W. A." Dq&pdaHt dul.not flihnit any malicious infe\rt, ? aiid h'nd-pniU' into Co'irt the sum s *nt*"j£s" < ?isr*being sufficient cwmpehsation : \ Mr Barljicoat contended that the $c-; 1| fcndify]t l^d* ihe .right ;itu| pay mfcoi ;' Coufi^nd^ef^iid H ; h¥ cas% i Ijelquotedcases m support of tins contention * under the last English rule payment into i IGotut i^libeli'aseswas not' allowed. *' :'.' < ;:• ..'MrFitzhvrbert woul 1 like the-caso to go befqre the Court, so that the circutu fltahcVs '-'could eoine out. ' : • ,/ws-?- --... The evidence of both plaiiitiffi and ■ ''defendant 'was taken, showing that plaintiff's creditors had never accused him of "robbing -them, and that Mr Armstrong had never been a creditor at all. : The defendant stated that 'the. postcard was written under a. feeling of . annoyance at a letter from plaintiff, which asked him whether heconsidered he (plaintiff) wa« going to rob him of the 5s due on the machine being mended ; Mr Fitzherbert, on behalf of plaintiff, apologised for- -any annoyance caused, and, Mr Barnicoat, for defendant, accepted judgment for £o and costs. .■ ■ - . • • Ciyfl, Cases. A new case has been ;added ; to .the' licfc of cases to be' tried at this sitting of the Supreme Court. It is 'an appeal case Roe v. Bowern, to be heard m banco. This will be heard to-day after the divorce case Chaldecott v Chaldecott. The other cases settled|On now are Wirihama Terekuku v. Kidd, Nicholson Bros, v. Davey- and- another for Monday ;. Fleetwood y. Australian Mortgage Company, Tuesday ; to be followed by Piercy v. Natives and Cook v. Natives. The case, of Dixon v. Dalziell has, we understand, been settled, as also that of Day v. Abbott.