A WARM CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4760, 4 June 1878, Page 3

A WARM CORRESPONDENCE.

The following correspondence appears in the 'Poverty Bay Herald* in reference to the estate of the late Mr G. E. Read :-~ Mr J. S. Macfarlan?, M.H.R.—Bear Sir, —Aoting on behalf of all the Natives whose lands or interests in lands are claimed by you ra common with the other executors of the will of the late Mr G. E. Rtad, as having been sold, mortgaged, or leased to ! him during his lifetime, I beg to give ' you notice that unless I receive from > you some definite offer of a settlement to which I can accede, I shall at once proceed to assert the legal rights of my clients. I have further to inform you that, if in actions which I shall bring against you you choose to defend those which seem to me defenceless, I shall use my best endeavors to provide for such waste of the money of the estate, by moving the Supreme Court to compel you to pay the costs of both sides

out of your own personal estate.—l am. &c, W. L. Bees, Gisborne, May 21, 1878. W. L. Keep, Esq., M.H.R.-Sir, -Lest it may be deemed wrong not to reply to any letter, however impertinent, senseless, or worthless, I beg to acknowledge receipt of youra dated the 1:1st, which is certainly the most insolent and meaningless document I ever beheld. Surely by this time, and after the experience you have had of the notice I have always taken of any propositions from yon, you might have saved yourself the trouble of making those contained in your letter, which would also have saved me the unpleasant duty of having again to assure you that I cannot enter into auy business transactions with one so utttrly void of business knowledge as you havo always shown yourself to be; and further, as regards your threats, I am sorry to J-avo to tell you plainly that idle threats from one whb3e knowledge of law and equity, or even of what is right and fair between man and man, is, in my opinion, so insignificant, that they will bo treated by me with the utmost contempt. In slrort, you have wasted one sheet of paper, and compelled me to wesfco another.—t am, &c, J. H, Macfarlane, G aborne, May 13.