INTERESTING TO NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 325, 4 December 1880, Page 2

INTERESTING TO NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS.

Judging from a recent case heard in the Small Debts Court, Mudgee, a great number of , newspaper subscribers are ignorant of the law bearing on the subject. For t heir benefit we make the following extracts, which we commend them to “read, mar;k, and learn”: —“Any person who takes a paper regularly from * a Post Office, whether directed to his name or another’s, or whether he haa subscribed or not, is responsible for the "W----payment.” “If a person orders his/ paper to be discontinued, he must all arrears, or the publisher may tinue to send it until payment is and collect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken from the officer or not. “ The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from -. the Post office, or removing and leaving' them uncalled for is prima facie evidence of an intentional fraud.” The Trade Protection Society sued 16 of their subscribers for arrears of subscription to their paper. The defendants admitted that they were subscribers, but refused to pay the amount sued for, alleging by their attorney a? a defence that the paper was sent to them after they had given notice to the proprietors to discontinue sending the same to them. The: plaintiffs, by their attorney, Mr J. McCarthy, contended that the defendants were liable, as at that time the notice was sent the defendants were in arrear in'their subscriptions, and that his clients could in face of that notice, continue sending the paper until all arrears were paid. In support of this view he referred the Court to several authorities. ; i= on tins matter. magistrate - '• after hearing the attorneys on both ; sides sustained the view of the plaintiff’s. . attorney, and gave a verdict for the amount claimed in each case, together with witnesses expenses.