ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
MILLER V. DWYER. (TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE LAKE WAKATIP MAIL.) Sir, —My attention has been drawn to the case. Miller v. Dwyer, heard before the Qaeenstown Resident Magistrate on the 12th instant. The evidence disclosed that the defendant rented a farm, the property of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., but neglected to pay his rent. Notwithstanding this man Dwyer being in occupation of the property, and failing to make good a single shilling of rent to the Company, the Resident Magistrate is of opinion, in giving his dscision, that the case in question is one of hardship to Dwyer, for although legally responsible, in point of equity (or as he, the resident magistrate, puts it) morally he thought the Company was responsible. I can only reply that if such opinions usually guide him in giving his decision, the law-abiding portion of the community meet with scant justice at the hands of Mr J. S. Hickson.—l am. etc., J.NO. TIRNBCLL. Invercargill, April 22, ISB7.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1587, 29 April 1887, Page 5
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169ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1587, 29 April 1887, Page 5
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