DUNEDIN, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1760, 16 October 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN, Last Night.

Tub British King arrived at London from New Zealand, after a passage of 42 days, beating- the Catalonia by eight days. Judge Williams dismissed the appeal to-day m the libel case Homsby v. The Wakatipu Mail, in which the juiy gave the plaintiff a verdict. A non-suit was claimed on the gioundh th.it the woids complained of weie not capable of the alleged Mjmification Thelibel was as follows : "The lectuiei (Homsby)appeais tohavean insatiable penchant foi l)lood and nimder, inculcated perhaps in his eaily youth, as he sailed fiom Tasmania, and it has befoie now been icmaiked that his lineage is to be tiaced in the recoup of the Chatham Islus 1 . Hi*. Honour closed his judgment as follows: — To put the nnttei shoitly, tho liny have found that tho defendant, m a rigmarole way, has called the plaintiff a convict. 1 should have thought it nioie pi obable that the imputation l elated to the plaintiff* ancestry and bunging up ; but, undei the cncuinstances, I am not piepaiod to say that the meaning which the ]ivy have attached to the expressions complained of is too large. Rule discluugod with costs, &10 10>. The weather has cleared up, and it is \eiy fine to-night.