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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3109, 21 January 1889, Page 2

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W ; <<•*!,»« v,' „ Lamentable Accident- f - • A-lamentablo accident-occurred on the Wesiport Coal Company's incline oif Saturday." • CliMej Biley, tbo manager 111 charge of the Company's machiuory,-was walking down tbo luolmo when. by >• some misob ance iie ; was;\ caught _by; a.- buck and received'mch 'injuries tliiitlirisiiot expected to recover.':. f ;i & ■ ■■■;s'■ <;

A Specimen of Native InnocenceCanracaußcii, Jumiaiy 20. ; \ At; Uie iLittle River' Magiatrate's; fiourti/Jnteiy./xa/Maoriv' giri/-named. Maiy Walkei, aged tbiiteun, us biought before Mi Wbitcfooid, R.M. A clay.qr two-previously she visited a lelative in ut distnnt par Lot the settlement, und.startled - bun-by'informing him that bei father was dead She fsked if ~shemight gather some powers, to .-decorate ; the: coffin-and stiew upon the grave. Her; relative gave pernnibion, Hi\mg go t the flowers she took them to an botol and sold them tor a shilling. She then called 011 a storekeeper and said I slie hud sold some potatoes to Mrs Reynolds, tlio statioumaster's wife, who had no change, and Imd sent her to the storckee|,ei, who would much obli s o hei if ho .would pay the girl oil her, account 3s. :" The;;storekeeper thought .this rather strange, and wrote a note; asking Mi's Royiiolds if the girl's story wtrtie, This be told the girl to deliver aud bring buck the answer. The girl took it away, and' shortly afterwards returned, bringing back the same paper endorsed in verv good hii'dwritiug, apparently by Mrs Reynolds, to the effect tlmt she had sent Mary, and that the message was what she intended to be ."convoyed. On this he bauded the money over and thought 110 more about it till he met the lady, when he found 'she knew nothing about it, It wag shown that the j>irl had planned these two swindles for the gratification of her love of/fineiy, on wliioli she spent the proceeds. Mr Whitefoprd committed and liberated hep on probation for six months. '.

LIBEL ACTION. . Wellington, Monday. In the Supvome Court, civil side, the libel action, with damages laid at £B,OOO, Larnach v the proprietors of the New Zealand Herald, commenced this morning. The plaintiff says that on 19th July, 1888, the defendants falsely and maliciously published articles commenting on the departure of plaintift from the colony when Pai'liauieut was in session to enter into business in Melbourne, having first asked.leave of absenco on the plea_ of illness in his family, and continuing to draw his honorarium; wherefore he claims '£B,ooo damages. Defendants admit tlio publication, but deny the.malico, and say that .the subject matter of the alleged libels became and was matter of public interest, and thereupon they published the comments set out iu the plaintiffs statement, which wero< bona fido for the public good and without sinister or malicious motives. Ihey also deny that the said publications are libellous. Sir Robert Stout, instructed by Messrs Buckley and Stafford, is for plaintiff, and Mr Gully, with him Mr Skerrett, for the defendants.

- Later,. In the libel case Larnach's evidence detailed his movements during: the session,, and explained he was called to Dunedin by" urgent message from the doctor attending his daughter. He was cross examined to show that it was the common impression he was - about to leave for Melbourne. It was stated lie had given a banquet to civil servants, and replied to a gentleman who spoke on the matter that lie was going to leave the Colony, He had received an apology by telegram from defendants, but did not. deem it sufficient, Dr Coughrey was called to prove the illuess of plaintiff's daughter, but his ovidence was not admitted as it was irrelevant. ,