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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
In the Pahiatua Star promissory-note case, referred to in our October issue, the defendants have applied for a new trial.
Mr Henry Anderson (familiarly known as « Jock »), a well-known Wellington journalist, is reported to be suffering from malignant cancer at the root of the tongue.
In the Supreme Court, Napier, on the 15th December, Valentine Harrison, compositor, pleaded guilty to forging an endorsement on a promissory note for £27 10s, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor.—The charge of libel against A. A. George (see p. 69) fell through, the Crown Prosecutor not presenting the bill to the grand jury.
The Napier News has had a good share of litigation since its first establishment, and according to the Timaru Mail, there is more in prospect. That paper states that Mr Ivess intends to enter an action against the late proprietors for a refund of purchase money and special damages, consequent upon certain alleged misrepresentations made by the late company when effecting a sale of the property.
Mr George Adams, of the « Hansard » staff, met with an accident on the 27th inst. by which, we regret to say, he lost his life. He was owner of some property at the back of the Wellington Club, and, having obtained the necessary permit, proceeded to burn some gorse on it. Finding that the fire had gained too great a hold, he hastened to put it out, and was in the act of getting through a fence at the top of a high bank to obtain a hose for that purpose, when the fence gave way, and he fell a distance of about fifty feet. The accident was observed from the windows of the Club, and he was taken inside. Professional assistance was speedily obtained; but without avail, his back being broken, and he died on the following day. Mr Adams was for some years a committee reporter of the House of Representatives, and some three years ago was appointed to the « Hansard » staff. While Parliament was not in session, he edited the Poverty Bay Herald. He was a well-known journalist, and was at different times connected with the Dunedin Herald and the Wellington Times.