ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.-A WARNING. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10033, 26 April 1894, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.-A WARNING. TO THE EDITOR.

Sin,—l hops the farmers and people of the oolony will take into consideration the timely warning given by Mr A. Bathgate in this morning's Tsstia of the Daily Times, and have no more teds acclimatised in th>« colony. By all that is good'and gracious let as have (lono with those cnrsed anclimatifation Boeieties. They haye1 don*S mtfrfj to rain the colony than all the Slaori wars, floods, earthquakes, or other destroying agencies and devastation tha> we Kayo, had to 6'ontend against. The bird, and rabbit nuisance js bad enou(;h in the South Island, but if you tb' see th 6 cttrsfi in full swing go to the North Island. Let tfie Acclimatisation Society stick to the water, but do not let them bring any more rubbishing birds and animaU. Thirty year.) ago what a blessed country this top, but now it is ruined.— I djo, &J.,- . Mangfordj April 24

A. P. GAMrBBLt,

TH"_ CtfNVICT CMfBJiIS; TO THE BhiffiH.

Sir,—ln a -aubkader in your issue tods^ you style the "importunities" of the friends of Chemis "absurd," and assert that "he shot and stabbed » neighbour in the. back as he went along the road,!' and add,"a stiletto corresponding with tho stab was found in his possession and also a; shot gun oapablo ot being used for eufcti an otfcnCe." ■■,■;- It traS so certain that the daggef found had not been dsed and vfas not the weapon that iuflioted the btabs that it was practically abandoned by the proseculiorj, and the evidence of the Crown Armourer Bradford went completely against the theory that the accused's gun had been used in the orimo. As to1 tits He*?pap9r ( thp whole question rested on this • Was the plede of newspaper alleged iJy the police to be fotind Id Ohefflis a house found there in fact ? That Is a question of the credibility of th.c evidence, add On that the gravest possible dotitrt H*i ten thrown j aud anyone who Knows the. wfioie" .ef!<|fti<'o given at tho inquiry before the magistrate, at the trial itself, and on the hearing of the charge of perjury against the two constables must be a bold man indeed if, he .is prepared to h»cg a man on bo weak and uotruatwofth^ « nexus of testimony. He-member that this mjin tsafl coßvicted on purely circumstantial evidence. The criminal recordß of all countries yield tho most awful warnings of the danger of condemnation on such evidence. •<

A poor man was in England, not 30 years ago, convicted on circumstantial evidence, but he was reprieved and left in prison as Chem's is. The breadwinner of tho family wan taken away, the family went to tho workhouse, tho wife died, and when two years aftec a criminal convicted of another crime confessed the murder, the poor victim of circumstantiiil evidence received a free pardon, and left the gaol for the asylum a hopeless lunatic. —I am,

' April 21,

A Solicitor.

The Timaru Herald asserts that the police are making dil<g«nt inquiries as to, the whereabouts of a "grain expert" missing for the last few days.

— A Hindoo baby is named when It is 12 days old, and usually by the mother. Sometimes the father wishes for another name than that selected by the mother; In that case two lamps are placed over the two names, and the name over which the lamp burns brightest is the one given to the child.