"GREYISM AND LAND-SHRKING."

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 24, 31 January 1881, Page 3

" GREYISM AND LAND-SHRKING."

TO THI EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST. Sir— Re statement in your articlo of the 25th January, that I am in any way interested in land speculations, is simply untrue. I regret that yon are unablo to defend your Tory friends without making Buoh untrue personal attacks I am, &c, Robert Stout. Dunedin, 28th January, 1881. [Mr. Stout adopts his usual tactics. He first misquotes our words, and then denounces the misquoted statement as " untrue." If it be so, the untruth is Mr. Stout's, not ours. We did not say that Mr. Stout was "interested in any land speculations." We simply mention his name among others that had been "associated with land operations of considerable magnitude." There was recently a great flourish of trumpets about Mr. Stout's journey to the North in oonneotion with certain proceedings relative to native lands, and if we mistake not, his firm is "associated with" at least one considerable " land operation " as legal adviser to the parties interested. — Ed. E.P.] "

That married life in New South Wales has its troubles occasionally, seems pretty evident from the following advertisement, which appeared in a recent number of the Town and Country Journal:— •" Notice.— l, John Kelly, at present living at Budgery (late Block L), Hermitage Plains, Nyngan, give notice to Mary Kelly, my lawful wife, that, if she marries again, it will be at her own risk, and Qod help her husbami. (Signed) John Kelly."