was available to meet the £250 claim. Get Whitaker to forego the rest of the claim i. e. £40 the poor devil has not a penny and is head over ears in debt, He says paying this £40 will smother him. It is a hard case and no doubt Whitaker and Russell have it in their hands to let him off. People here may do something for him as respects his other debts if this one be settled. You will see in this morning's paper a retractation of the article in the H. B. Herald on which the libel case was founded i. e. so far as Purvis Russell and Wilson are concerned. The reason is as follows the article was in error on one point. It said the Trustees Wilson and P. Russell had divided the profits on the sale of Arihi's Heretaunga interest. This was not so. But the real reason of