Page 4 Advertisements Column 2

Otago Witness, Issue 296, 1 August 1857, Page 4

ARJiI .respectfully informed that -the. SE- , COND' INSTALMENT, of PASSAGE MONEY falls,- due on the 17th August .^B.s-7, and tha.t it is necessary to be ..punctual in paying the same. • „ ,; t , JOHN LOGAN, ,sCollector of Immigrants' Bills. Dunedin, 28th July, 1857. ■ . WAKARI DISTRICT B&ARD OF ROAD TRUSTEES. - : ■ A MEETING of this Board will be held at the premises of Mr. James Marshall 1 , in the Wakari District, upon Thursday the 6th! day of August 1857, at £,-past fr o'clock evening. By OOrderr r . . JAMES A. CHEYNE, Clerk to the District Board. Dunedin, 29th July, 1857. EX " GIL BLAS," MEN'S and YOUTHS' WATERTIGHT BOOTS. Women's Strong and Light Leather Lacing Boots JAMES PATERSON & Co. /COLONIAL RYE GRASS SEED, of suV^ perior quality Clover Seed Bluestone, for Wheat. JAMES PATERSON & Co. PASTORAL ASSOCIATION OF MURIHIKU. A MEETING of the Committee of this Association was held at Invercargill on the 13th June, when the following Resolution was carried : — Proposed by Captain Raymond, and seconded by VV. Cameron, Esq., — " That this Association, viewing with alarm the proceedings of the Inspector of Sheep acting under the provisions of the new bheep Ordinance, resolve, in respect to the case of Dr. Menzies, (in the event of the judgment of the Dunedin Bench being of an adverse nature} to support Dr. Menzies in a suit at law with the Inspector." The next Meeting of the Association will take place on the Ith August. W. L. LEGGATT, Hon Sec. Invereargill, 14th June, 1857. [ADVERTISEMENT.] BARR v. MILLAR. To the Editor of the Otago "Witness. SIR, — My attention has been drawn to a letter which appeared in your last issue, signed " William Johnston," commenting; upon some alleged proceedings of mine in reference to the late case in the Resident Magistrate's Court, "Barr v. Millar." The whole letter is a tissue of distorted facts, misrepresentations, and inventions. I depart on this occasion from my usual course, of allowing newspaper animadversions to pass unnoticed, mainly on account of the following assertions contained in the letter in question : — The writer represents himself to have threatened that he would memorialize the Governor, and asserts that I stated in reply, that I did not care a straw for the Governor ; and that I further stated, that my official power was supreme and uncontrolled. No conversation passed between the writer of the letter referred to and myself which could possibly be tortured into bearing such a construction; and. the reckless character of his statements in these particulars may convey an idea of the amount of reliance to be placed on his other assertions, which, as far as I am concerned, are equally without foundation. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, A. CHETHAM STRODE. Dunedin, 29th July, 1857. [ADVERTISEMENT.] To the Editor of the Otago Witness. SIR, — Permit me, on behalf of the gentleman who presided at the late Jury Trial, Barr v. Millar, to state, in as few words as my knowledge of the English language will permit, a flat and unqualified denial of, I may safely say, every assertion contained in a late explosion of professional bile on the part of Mr. William Johnston, of the Kuri Bush, solicitor, as contained in your last paper. And in so doing I cannot refrain, in the way of preface r from stating that the production referred to, (the publication of which as an " advertisement" must have cost him so much), although founded on truth, exhibits a woful absence of law, and of the risks to which a breach thereof, even by a solicitor, may involve one who, like your correspondent of last week, loves so well to see himself in print. But that part of the case, I understand, will be taken up in a more serious manner on behalf of the presiding Magistrate, when no doubt my fellow-gownsman of the JSLuri Bush will get a more costly lesson on the Law of Libel than he bargained for when he was so far left to himself as to perpetrate the outrageous, vile,, and untruthful production to which I am about to reply. And as I fear, from the ominous word " Advertisement" at the head of my friend's "Bull," I was going to say, of last week, that a similar word may be attached to mine, I shall, in due consideration of my pocket, reduce my reply to as few lines as "possible. Ist. The presiding Magistrate is charged with, shortly after 7 o'clock in the evening of the first day of th 6 trial, refusing to adjourn the hearing till the following day, although