GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
A LIGHTING CASE.
Wellington, Last Night. Mr Justice Chapman to-day delivered judgment in a case in which the City Corporation sued Hamilton Gilmer and others for £3O 13s lOd, due for electricity supplied to the Trocadero Private Hotel, of which the defendants are the owners. The defence was that the amount should be chargeable against the occupier of the buildings, and was not enforceable as a separate rate agaiust the owners. Judgment was given for the defendants, with costs on the lowest scale.
THE PRESS AND THE PLAY.
Dunedin, Last Night.
Prior to the opening of the play "The Monk and the Woman," at Timaru, the local papers inserted in the news column, by way of advertisement, matter calculated to affect the company's business in that town. As a result of legal opinion the New Zealand representative of Messrs. George Murlow (Mr. Grant) has been instructed by his principals in Sydney to demand a public apology from both the Timaru newspapers, failing which a writ for damages is to issue. One of the metropolitan papers may also be involved.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 285, 24 April 1913, Page 8
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181GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 285, 24 April 1913, Page 8
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