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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 815, 21 June 1879, Page 2

Telegrams have been received in Gisborne and Napier, that the heartless, unfeeling charge against Mr. J. G. Kinross has broken down, and that the case has been dismissed. No one who knew anything about the matter expected it would be otherwise. But it has been a cruel prosecution ; one calculated to entail deep anguish upon the accused, and to produce feelings of the most profound sorrow in the wide circle of his family and his friends. Those who instigated the charge, and he who brought all of his misplaced abilities to support it should bow their heads abashed and humbled at the attempt which has been made to crush a gentleman ever held in the highest esteem and respect by all to whom he has been so long known. Tho money cost in ■ do' fending this prosecution has been very great. The forced neglect of business has been even greater ; but both these added are nothing in comparison to the terrible agony of mind Mr. Kinross, his kith and kin, and his many friends, miißt have been subjected to. It has all passed now ; but it has inflicted a wound which may never heal, or having healed, will always leave the mark of the cicatrice. There is not a man in all Hawke's Bay, or in the districts of Poverty Bay, but will this day hail with deepest satisfaction the release of Mr. Kinross from so serious a charge ; and those who have been his persecutors, what will be thought and spoken of them? More than we dare to write, but not less than we deeply feel that there could be so much cruelty in human nature.