CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4280, 18 April 1879, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

|THE CASE OF BASSINGTHWAITE. TO THB BDITOB OB THB PBB3B. Sib,—There are two points in your article in this morning's paper which I do not like to pass wholly unnoticed. First—Bassingthwaite ceased to be my client some time previous to the trial, arid I did not in my former letter say one word in favor of him, but merely attempted to uphold the fairness of the sentences which had been impugned by you. Secondly—You state "Hoey was visited with a fully average punishment, while Bassingthwaite was evidently and indeed avowedly let off lightly." The fact being as I have already shown, that Hoey received one-seveDth and Bassingthwaite one-half of the maximum punishment allowed by law. If one-seventh of the maximum term be " a fully average punishment" in the one case, it is difficult to understand how one-half of the maximum term can be a light punishment in the other case. Yours, &0., J. B. GSBBBON. Christchurch, 16th April, 1878.

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