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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3929, 11 June 1877, Page 2

In the course of the proceedings before the Revision Court held on Wednesday last, Mr Cornforcl stated that "he, with two others," — we quote from our own re2)ort, published on the day following — " had made diligent search, and had ascertained that the natives who were objected to really had not the qualification entitling them to be put upon the roll. Unfortunatly, neither of the persons who had gone into the matter with him was in attendance. Mr Josiah Hanilin, one of them, was in the Wairoa, and though the other one, Mr Locke, had promised to attend, ho had not done so." We regret to say that Mr Locke informs us that the earlier portion of this statement is entirely incorrect. So far from having made diligent search and gone into the matter witli Mr Cornforcl, he had had absolutely no communication whatever on the subject with that gentleman previous to twenty minutes to eleven on Wednesday morning, the day of the Court's sitting ; he had, moreover, never even so much as read through the list of voters for revision, considering it altogether out of his province to meddle with such matters. What happened on Wednesday morning, Mr Locke informs us, was as follows : — Mr Cornford, finding that Mr Josiah Hamlin was out of town, had come to his (Mr Locke's) office, and had asked him to attend as a witness. Mr Locke said that if he was called upon as a witness, he would attend, though he was very reluctant to do so. In the end, he found it necessary to leave town before the hour of the Court's sitting, in order to fulfil a prior engagement.