IN RE TUNKS V. BILL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 348, 8 January 1876, Page 3

IN RE TUNKS V. BILL.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib, — I think your correspondent "An Outsider" cannot be aware of (he fact that a Magistrate can cnly judge by the evidence of witnessee. He would perhaps argue that asthe Major had ridden over the " run" he must be very well acquainted with it, and certainly had used bis own eyes before giving judgment. Absurd argument ! Is not the figure of Jußtioe blindfold, . with< scales to weigh- evidence withal? bo that if 'three ■ witnesses-swear a certain horse is black, and only two swear it ia white, then the blacks- have it, the judge knowing all the while the horse is white. " Outsider" will say the disinterested witnesses were " a tie," two and two ; granted. - Observe the advantage of being blind and. having eoaleß ; what is Samuel Clarke's weight -• to Jonathan Brown's ? " Outsider" makea « great deal of the word "cultivation." Does the Impounding Act slate what crops are to be cultivated ? Is not the lovely fern (diabolis) :. a crop highly cultivated ? aleo the little plant • dandelion {roadium sidus) with its golden ' flower sparkling in the sunlight? which-be--basely calls "a weed." Now we have a standard of cultivation established, . it is. a low one, and will suit poor Tauranga. ' Anyone can now hiro an aore here and there all over' the district as traps to catch horses and cattle for the Pound, that ttilhniabe thiitg»."liv6!y.".Is there any such Ishmael in our midst P Certainly not!— l am, &c., . . JOBTITIA. ■ "