BOTTOMLEY AGAIN SUED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 9, 5 July 1911, Page 5

BOTTOMLEY AGAIN SUED.

AND ORDERED TO DISGORGE. By Cable—Press Association.—(' >pyright London, ■ Iv 3. The executors of G. Parker -1 Horatio Bottomley, M.l'., for in cu.inection with a judgment obtained in November, 1906. The Court ordered an account to be taken and Bottomlev to nay accordingly. Bottomley also sub"mit.ted to judgment for £17,250 in another case. E. T. Ilooley was associated with Bottomley in both actions.

The career of Mr. -Bottomley. who lias just nad £50.00(1 awarded against him for misrepresentation, asia company promoter, writes the Pall Mall Gazette, found its most eccentric development in 1006. when after unsuccessfully contesting the division in I!H)0. he found himself the victor in South llacknev with a plurality of 3471) votes, beating not only the old' and tried Conservative member, Mr. T. H. Robertson, but also a Free, Church minister who had been run l>v the unco' guid Nonconformists who dm not like Mr. Bottomley's racing proclivities. Politics apart, he stood frankly as a racing man, and electors were given to understand that a vote for Mr. Bottomley was a vote of gratitude to Wargrave. It will be remembered that during the time when the Sun was under his control, Dr. Parker. Dan Lent) and other celebrities were given opportunities to show what they could do as editors. His successful ?t>eecli in his own defence at the Hansard Union trial was generally allowed to lie one of the ablest feats of tne kind on record. Yet he did not impress the House of Commons in 1000, when he was refused a first reading of a Bill against street betting—a most unusual rebuff . lie did better in 1008, when he scored off the Government-frequently on the Licensing Bill.