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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3602, 1 September 1890, Page 2

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. [By Telegraph] Supreme Court Wellington, Monday. The calendar for the criminal sessions which qppd this wor-ning contains thenahiesof 15' persons. In his address to the Grand Jury, Chief Justice Prendergast said the charges' were most of an ordinary nature; In the case inwhioha man is charged with the exhibiting in his window of a placard maligning the character of another person His Honor pointed otr| that the publication of all matter oj a cfefainatory nature was.either indict able. or.actionable. If libel 'was oommitted in private, for instance, where only two persons were concerned, the jury would be justified iii throwing out the indictment, but if the publio were affected by the matter then the jury should hying in a true bill. Ho did not prpjqnd to eaj under which; category the present case should oome, The theory of law was that cases of defamation of character should be indictable, as they were-, - calculated to provoke a breach pf.the peace, and also vory often (h6v|eyson making" rise of a libejlqus statement had»nq- nioans, and therefore an action, for damages would be useless. - '-•■■'. ■. . RaUwK&ttOM. . '

',-.„"'•■) Wellington, Monday, '. A deputation of M.H.R.'s waited on the Eailway- Commissioners, this morning, There were present Messrs Ward, Rhodes, fltchett, Buxton,; j, arid T, MoKenzie, Reward,, Berpeya), Brown, Hall, M .Duncan; ''Walker, Veral," Fjeldwioii 'and : Maiffljiwij

Tfie principal subjects brought'under Hie notice' of Commissioners were the priyate railway sidings,' reduction in ohargea on the consequent stock- of lime, bales, bags, whitepine, timber, and firewood, carriage of grain fer short distances, tickets for' school children, and the alteration in the hours of running the express betweon Ohristchurc'i and Dunedin and stoppage: at more stations. There was considerable discussion -on some points,'particularly the carringoof stock and alteration in the. Southern express.; '■''..'■ / 7 The Commissioners will take tho questions into consideration.