SUPREME COURT.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston N., Feb. IS. The Supreme Court opened to-day before Mr. .lustice Edwards. Alfred Larkin pladed guilty to false pretences, mid received a sentence of 12 months' hard labor, and was ordered to undergo three years' reformative treatment. Wellington, Pel). 18. . In the Supreme Court to-day, when the case Charles .John Ward v." John Bull Newspaper Proprietary, a claim for alleged libel was called on, counsel said it was admitted that the statement made by the newspaper was not justified, and that a certain sum. had been paid by the .lohn Bull Proprietary to the War Relief Association. He therefore asked that the case be withdrawn. This was agreed to. The ground for the action was a statement that plaintill', a contractor for tlie manufacture of military boots, was using premises owned by a German.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1918, Page 6
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