ECHO OF THE ELECTION.
CHARGE AGAINST NEWSPAPER. By Telegraph —rress Assn —Copyrisht. Pahiatua, Last Night. A case which was an echo of the general election campaign was heard by Ml'. Free, S.M., at the Courthouse this morning, when Colin MacPonald, editor and publisher of the Pahiatua Herald, was charged, upon the information of Robert Beatson Ross, Liberal candidate at the election: That on December 11, 11)10, he published in the Pahiatua Herald an untrue statement defamatory of Ross, and calculated to influence the votes of electors as follows: ''The plain facts of the ease are that when Mr. Ross first decided to contest the seat he wrote to the Herald announcing the fact, and adding that this time he was standing as an Independent." The ease centred round an allesed letter which Ross wrote to the Herald, and which has since been lost. Mac Donald j produced a witness who had read the letter, and who remembered the words "this time as an Independent." His Worship dismissed the information, with costs against Ross.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 3
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173ECHO OF THE ELECTION. Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 3
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