SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 June 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

IV r Press Association. Itli'uheim, dune 15. In the huprenie Court, David Dougs was iiiKHl C2f>o and cunts for eriminly libelling Kdward MeUuire. Auckland, Juno V.\. A charge of manslaughter against VA'w.n ivies, in .?:.nuectiuii witij the death of | t infant taken for adoptioin, was heard l!u' Supreme Court to-day. The jury, itjii the suggestion of .liidye Dennistou, 'Hiiitted accused before the case for the 'iVixr wan concluded, the judge stating ii\t it wivs impossible to iind that death as due to starvation, as alleged, in view t the medical testimony that a post lortem examination was necessary to liuw this. Tlu- Judge declared that lie system of adopting infants in repoiise to advertisements olTering a small rcniium should he made absolutely 51>gal, because under such circumstances , was to the interests of a person taking child that the sooner it died the bet-

Palmerston North, June 13. The Supreme Court case against .uiher Martin and Murray for alleged ij lie stealing at Dannevirke, was dislissed.

The Court was engaged for the reainder of the day healing appeals.

A LIBEL ACTION. Per Press Association. Auckland, June 13. The civil business of the Supreme Court .silting commenced this afternoon before Mr, Justice Denniston, when the action of Christopher James Parr, solicitor, v. Robert Frederick Way, for £OSO damages for alleged libel was begun with a jury of twelve. Mr. Thomas Cotter appealed for plaintiff, and defendant conducted his own ease. The ground of the alleged libel was the publication of an article in the. New Zealand Worker, of which defendant is editor, alleging that plaintiff was interested -pecuniarily in a disorderly house, by lending money to the proprietress at a high rate of interest, and that he used his position as a member of the Auckland City Council to facilitate the granting of a lodging-house license to a person conducting this disorderly house. Parr was a candidate at the last election for City East.