GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 13 February 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association DAMAGES FOK SLASDER. Palmebston N., February 12. In I 10 District Court, before Jud"c itasolden, Hoary B. Coles sued John Mckenzie, a bookmaker, for alleged slander Ike action originated after tlie Bulls races. Defendant owed £lls lor bets, and he refused to nay on the grounds that liad plaintiff lost he would not have been able to pay. Defendant also nmdea statement that plaintiff had several X.O.L. s about town. Plaintiff emphatically denied oyer giving an i.v. i. iiis Honor remarked on the peculiar circumstance that both nartics had betted lor months provious, and defendant had never taken the trouble earlier to enquire into plaintiff's liuan«a position. The jury found a verdiet for plaintiff for £SO damages. Costs will be awarded to-morrow.

ALLEGED HoiSßiatY

Invercargill, Fubruarv 12 t ■> reported in.,,,, Wuino u,ut tt ; iiuev named J, lim ] JoVilmiov knocked down and robbed „'/ „ o arlv fatter he had been drinking in f, foM. A warrant has b w -u "issued •itiused by Dcvannoy. ■SOUTULANIMVOOL WALE. Invercargill, K01,,-.,.,rv 12, ■l'"' i.hif.l and last wool e-veited not much interest Tlie i„i-,'i of 11)14 bales was all de-.lt wit i hour most of the woo i' 1,0 i„., ,"!! I»'fed in at 11k- Jam,,,,-,- ,) " I ~' petition, howe'ver, was It, i jmj cases advanced prkerwero'rea' . . 11.1 11, 11-1/,!; .stionj,, ],),[ [ ~|. cr.o,^d tl -ir„ifW^ pool. lor uiedium prier* l.m Vm l Much, 10,1 and ,„,,,, „„;,„.' ' '"i tight hale, u/half-bred ewe. '

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