SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 141, 12 June 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

MAYORAL LIBEL CASE. Per Press Association. Palmei'ston N., Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Cooper, the case in which Richard Essex, the late Mayor, claims C5Ol from E. D. lloben, proprietor of the Manawatu Times, for alleged libel in connection with the recent Mayoral election came up for hearing. The state, ment of claim set out that the plaintill had suileral damage from an article in the Manawatu Times in which the words '•Laborers' whisky won" figured. It 'was held that the words meant that the plaintiff had won votes from the laborers by providing them with whisky. Other libellous matter was also said to have been published. For the defence i f was denied that the words quoted referred to plaintill'. For plaintiff evidence was given by several councillors, the town clerk, the chairman of th; Essex election committee, and others. The case for the plaintill' was not completed when the Court adjourned.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. Auckland, Thursday. In Hie Supreme Court to-day Henry Cadd, an ex-employee of the Government Foully Export Department, was charged with theft, of a quantity of eggs, and sentenced to IS months' imprisonment. Claude Illingworth, charged with theft from a hotel, was also sentenced to lt> mouths' imprisonment.

A NAPIER LIBEL SUIT. Napier, Thursday. The ease Lusk (solicitor) versus McDonell (Inspector of Police), for alleged slander and libel, has been settled out o! Court, defendant publicly apologising.