THE SUPERINTENDENT v. WATSON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1451, 5 August 1865, Page 2

THE SUPERINTENDENT v. WATSON.

to TUB IDITOR OF THB LYTTRf.To* T, " filll,—Since the case tried yestmla.- E '' Evident Magistrate's Court betwrWt },*.«'* Undent and myself in exciting ft g rtflfj , , u Mn. cussion, will you permit me, through thf i lis- - vour paper, to place the whole "cam. },7 nni public, which, in juitico to inm]f t f! i " upon to do F • ' In December, 1858, Mr. C. J. i{ a „ _ , get out from England a friend of hi '' 1 U) Joseph Kairna, and a young; woman, nam,,!*!' 4 Ann Poucccj, who were about to bo rnani I • 7 immigration regulations requiring that f, : ll i ' ll ' for this iturpose should he aw>pf*| hv'-\ n holder, Kae applied to me and 1 con,/ n twi'V"' bill# were accordingly drawn, and J them. After some time I heard from J{ 4 , young man Katrns had succceded in situation, as a secretariat a salarv ofr> ? * annum, and declined corning Finding that the persons for whom r * • these bills declined to come, j n concluded there was an end to fix: iraa-wii!'" I afterwards learned from Mr. Brown " Jt immigrants' bill*), to my utter 'V'' Mr. FitzGerald, the Knglinh ha/'l U „,V bills to send out a Mrs. PouncTy (\ n ? some of her children, laton re >,y' to having mv bills transferred without and objected to hold myvlf liable f„ r t }„. ,'. r '. l " nt ' money of persons utter stranger* to m<.. persons for whom I accepted thw hilh rr,,*', Government would have been paid, ami never have heard of this. H-.aic' tim* a Brown wished me to see Mr. Bowen th*\ r X respecting this matter. I went with Mr !i'" T to Mr. Bowen's office. h«arinr» m 7 mcnt of the whole transaction, " I had taken counsel's opinion on the rn.vl-.IT (Mr. Bowen) asked me poinMlv it' for whom I had accepted the bills had co.vjV and had not paid the Government, have paid? I replied. " rert.v'nW '■ vr objection was, and is still, to hare tnv bsfii -r a ferred without my consent, anrl making me for the passage money of persons of f nothing, and of whom I had never heur!.

I am, sir, jrouri, &<>., eobert Watson.