CURIOUS ACTION FOR SLANDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 315, 14 November 1879, Page 2

CURIOUS ACTION FOR SLANDER.

MADAME MCOUTEUKWCOUET.

Aii no tin ii was commenced in the Supreme Court, bvdney, on the 27th Octol.er by Augustus Vagenheim, licensee of -in hotel 1,1 Castlereayh-street, against IVmas anclßndpt Dalveen, publicans n '' fur (| e f amati«ii of character. Dainayea i rera set down ut £SOOO. Emily , Ciiiiteur, daughternf tlieplaintiff stated t hat on the 12ih of February " beinff at R-ithnrst with the C„ra Company she stayed at defendant s hotel, She and Mrs Oiah .m were sitting on the balcony. She did not know the two ladies before. Mrs Daheen came up and asked Madame Le iy i " '-he was a daughte- of flKenheim, wlio kept an hotel in King.tieet On receivnig an answer in the ifhrmative, Mrs Dalveen said, 11 1 suppose you have carried on some nice games with my hnsbanJ while in Sydney." Witness en,ed ever having flirted with him. A Htle later witness remarked that it was hard to make money by sinking. Mrs Da Veen said sne was very glad that her " ll;i 1 (ll|llt brnnght up in such t Common house as her (witness) father's, uhi that witness could always make money is long as there were gentlemen. Witness isked her what she meant, and received a reply, " \ou know what it means," adding thsi> out of such men as Mr Dalveen sh» ' ,'witness) obtained her education Mrs Dalveen said that "his" (meaning the 1 alaintiffs house) was nothing but a bad louse, and that his daughter was the decoy ;o bring respectable men there to spend :heir nmney in his " ni<rht house that nany a night she (Mrs Dalvem) had to ,'o to plaintiffs house, and brin» her husland a way from the bad company he was n. Further, she falsely published the ollowmgOld Wagenheim has money lecause he swindles everybody He squared' the police not to say anything diout his keeping a bad house. He keeps' i common night-house, robbing people ■igHand left, and everybody knows it." rhe "ffcmliint, Thomas Dalveen, in .'"Minn "f damages pleaded (hat immeUle.y he received the letter from plain■iff«nil",;,ley in this actio,, he apologised p 7 , le ' tel ' an(l personally for the ~ e , « The cr-se having vowdfd some leiitrili, ),[„ Honor su«° w-d that It. should be settled after the that had heen given. The court "i join tied for the opening of ParliaUtJUt.