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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 48

[plaintiff's declaration]

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The plaintiff's declaration was as follows:—
1.That he has for many years past carried on and was at the time of the matters herein complained of carrying on the business of an Auctioneer and Commission Agent at Blenheim in the Provincial District of Marlborough.
2.That in the year 1804 he was a teller in the Bank of New Zealand at their branch office at Picton in the said Provincial District and continued in such position until the nineteenth day of August 1864 when he left the service of the said Bank of New Zealand.
3.That on or about the first day of September 1864 the sum of three thousand seven hundred pounds was stolen from the said Bank of New Zealand at their said branch office.
4.That one David Henderson Murdoch was tried in this Court at Nelson on a charge of stealing the said sum of three thousand seven hundred pounds, and that the plaintiff was a witness for the prosecution at such trial, and that the said David Henderson Murdoch was acquitted.
5.That afterwards, namely, in the years from 1872 to 1878 the plaintiff acted as Clerk to the Resident Magistrate's Court at Blenheim aforesaid, and for that purpose occupied a room in the Government Buildings at Blenheim aforesaid.
6.That while he was acting as such Clerk, and occupying such room as aforesaid, namely, on the second day of November, 1876, the said Government Buildings were totally destroyed by fire.
7.That on or about the twenty-fourth day of September, 1879, the defendant falsely and maliciously printed and published of the [unclear: in] a newspaper called the Rough Express the words Following, that is to say:—