stood his friend with his employers. How singular and yet how common that folks will ape to be what they are not. For several posts I have been intending to write you for your own ear a few words of the Whitcombe libel case in so far as Mr. Kenny R.M. is concerned. Whitcombe was in the Military settlers and is an able young man but unscrupulous and unreliable. As Prov. Secretary Carrington is much indebted to him and in this way the libel was a political affair. In the examination in the R.M. Court Whitcombe thought fit to conduct his own case and as a matter of course was very frequently called to order for irregularity. I was acting for H.A. Atkinson and the Bayly's against him and proving the case by