Letters to the Editor.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 766, 5 November 1886, Page 19

Letters to the Editor.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAUL.

Sir, —I, in common 'with many others, read a letter signed “ Lincoln’s Inn.” I read.it, Sir, with feelings of the deepest disgust. The writer is obviously not a member of the Inn whose name lie has so shamelessly degraded, or he would know that comment from the Bench is not infrequent. It is difficult to imagine a series of circumstances more calculated to arouse those feelings of indignation which, though a Judge, Mr Justice Richmond shares with other thinking people than the melancholy display in the jury box at last criminal sittings.—l am, &c., Student-at-Law.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAIL.

Sir, —If the common jury to which his Honor Mr Justice Richmond made such scathing remarks were all composed of such men as “ Only One,” no wonder that the result was an entire miscarriage of justice, and the letting loose into society criminals of the deepest dye, who, if justice had ruled the day, would now have been in the hands of the governor of Mount Cook Gaol. The person who wrote the so-called letter signed “ Only One ” is evidently “ from Wanganui.” His paltry arguments, which are in reality no arguments at all, should be passed by unnoticed, except for the idiotic nonsense in which they are put put forward. As to his comments on the conduct of Mr Justice Richmond, of course this sort of talk is only what might be expected from anybody so ignorant as your correspondent “ Only One.” —I am, &c., Public Opinion. October 23. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. TO THE THE EDITOR OF NEW ZEALAND MAIL. Sir, —Many persons are asking for information respecting the Imperial Institute, and what good it may do to New Zealand 1 Every business man knows the advantage of a good shop front in a good position, and Exhibitions are- the shop fronts of nations, where they display their goods to advantage. The Colonial Exhibition in London gave this advantage to the colonies, aud enabled each colony to display its goods so that they might meet the eye of the world, and I presume it is to perpetuate this benefit that the Imperial Institute is to be established. We have a remarkable instance of the utility of being properly represented by what is now taking place with respect to the Queensland gold mines. We see by the telegrams that there is a rush to take up shares in the Queensland mine. New companies are being formed in London, and this is to be traced to the excellent manner in which goldmining machinery and crushing plant were shown in actual work at the Exhibition. Sharp men of business have made use of the occasion, have raised (money to take up mines, and the result will be perhaps millions of money spent in Queensland. Cannot New Zealand j>rofifc by this lesson, and show her productions to advantage at the Imperial Institute ? Surely if it were known what gold has been extracted from the sea, the rivers, and the soil, and the rich reefs now being worked and yet to be discovered, New Zealand might profit by some of that capital which the English people seem so anxious to invest.—l am, &c.,

Henry Hughes, Johnston-street, Wellington, 2nd November.