SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 220, 24 February 1915, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

PAUIERSTOX'S CLE AX ,SHEET. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston X., February 23. t At the Supreme Court sessions to-day Justice Hosking received a pair of "vhito gloves 011 account of a clean criminal calendar. This is the fourth time within twelve months that his Honor •us received a similar compliment, the ■lther places being Westport, Crcymouth. and. Blenheim. LIBEL TO BE CALLED A GERMAN. Cliristchurch. February '23. At the Supreme Court, Samuel Kraetzer, racecourse detective, claimed £IOOO from the Lvttelton Times Company for damages for libel, alleged to have been contained in a paragraph in condensed correspondence as follows:—" 'Patriotic' why the Canterbury Jockey Club employs a German as a racecourse detective." Counsel for plaintiff said that although Kraetzer was not mentioned by name, lie was identified as the person referred to. The defence was a denial that the paragraph referred to plaintiff. •The jury returned a verdict for plaintill for £SO and costs. The Judge held that at a time like the present it was obnoxious to be called a German. Plaintiff gave evidence that ho was born in victoria, and that his parents v.-ere Russians.