PATEA.
This day. The criminal libel case against the Fatea Mail, by, William Dale, junr., auctioneer and an active politician, has commenced. Edward Hough ton, proprietor of the Mail for publishing an alleged malicious and defamatory libel, by reporting a conversation he had with a ratepayer which damaged his chance of election to the Mayoralty. Mr Dale denied the conversation. The ratepayers was in court to swear to it as substantially true. The investigation in the E.M. Court occupied some days, and after the prosecutors case closed, tbe defendant, who conducted his own case, made an address, and alleges reasonable grounds to believe the alleged libel was true, that it related to an important public matter, and being justified by the occasion thrre was no malice. The Magistrate then dismissed the case without requiring any evidence for the defence. A boy aged eight years, son of-Captain Wilkinson of Waverley, was drowned while bathing with his father in a stream yesterday.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4018, 14 November 1881, Page 2
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160PATEA. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4018, 14 November 1881, Page 2
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