The Observer.

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 46, 30 July 1881, Page 512

The Observer.

o Saturday, July 30th, 1881. The following letter is so important, that despite its length we have determined to pxiblish it intact. Our readers will form their own opinions as to the accusations it contains.

*-7To the Editor : Sir, — Touching your paragraph in issue of 16th about privacy of banking transactions, you seem surprised at what, is only common custom and practice in Auckland. In these small communities the only really safe man is he who never crosses a bank threshold. I could give you many instances where banks have disclosed their customers' — I believe it is fashion now to say clients' — affairs. "Whilst 1 was keeping a store in the Waikato some years ago my wife had a few hundreds out from London, a fact which was immediately communicated to all the importers • with whom I was dealing ; and the first time I came to town they congratulated me, to my great astonishment, and, on enquiry where they got the information, was told that X., of the — Bank, told and of the fact, as well as the 1 exact amount. This was my first experience, and, as I had been brought up in a merchant's. office in the city of London, I was, like yourself, greatly surprised and scandalised. Another time the B. Bank manager communicated to the C. Bank people (with whom I had an account in Waikato) that I had by me an unused letter of credit for £700, the result of which was a visit from a local country agent of the C. Bank, urging the advisability of using it in paying oft" a guaranteed overdraft I had there at the time of £600, as they preferred my cash to my guarantors, whom they represented as being shaky (which was untrue at that time). Again, quite recently, on presenting a letter of credit at the B. Bank for £200, a boy, who was behind the counter, took upon himself to refuse payment, on the ground that I had not got my discharge from tlie Court of Bankruptcy, where I had been forced to seek relief from a lot of rascally lawyers and their mortgagee clients, who had persistently persecuted me for some years over some house property in Waikato. No instructions having been given by the trustees to stop my remittances, I felt very stronglyonthesubject. Several business people would have cashed the draft, and sent it home as a remittance to correspondents, had not the bank stepped in a second time and iiulawfullypersuaded them not to do so. In this instance the manager did not disclose the fact to the parties that might have been interested, for fear they should be called upon to pay both, viz. — the trustees who had power to demand it, right or wrong, and myself from whom he was unlawfully withholding it, the money having been sent to provide the necessaries of life for a family of seven, whilst my affairs were in bankruptcy. That money has been lost to me for a twelvemonth ; and, in fact, I

have never had a penny of it yet. No other bank would have raised the question without authority from the Court, but the young counter - jumper having once referred it to his manager, who, by the way, is one of the "unco quid" — a man who fancies himself a good deal, and who prides himself upon his religious and philanthropic principles — could not, even when it was explained to him that it was sent out to keep a ruined family from actual starvation, or pretended he could not, permit me to be paid after his clerk has taken notice of it. The boy himself was only working for a friend, from whom he expected perhaps a fiver or a tenner for the information, as events proved shortly afterwards. In a public billiard-room one night a stranger, iust arrived from Australia, found himself and his business (that of life insurance agent) being fully discussed by two bank clerks over their game, which ended in one of them saying : "At all events he cannot be of much account ; he has only a draft on our bank for £150." The stranger, being unused to that sort of banking, called the next morning and transferred his account to .another bank. ; but of course it was only "out of the pan into the fire," for they all do it. At lunch at the Club all these little exchanges are made between the bank managers over their whisky. A short story is told of a man who was pestered by the Bank of — to vote for their nominee for the House, asking whether they wanted to rule New Zealand as Avell as own it, to which the bank official replied : "I don't see why we shouldn't, seeing that we have made the country !" I well recollect, in the Waikato, when trade and farming was flourishing, I was told by alocal manager that if I would only deal with a certain firm (K. and Co.) he would be able to assist me to a great extent in the way of accommodation. Fortunately I was sufficiently independent to be able to decline, and kept out of the hands of the firm who have such an evil reputation for sharp practice and treachery. X., being one of the local bank directors, Avas able to see every day all the bills that passed through, and knoAV lioav everyone's account stood. At that time there Avas no N. or C. Banks. But the money aa\is all gone (I mean the loan) before they got fairly started, and they were just sent #by Providence, I suppose, to relieve the original institution of all its bad accounts. But what the banks have done, and are daily doing, is nothing when compared Avith the rascally doings of some of Auckland's so-called merchants, who have grown Avith the growth of the place, and one and all started from the very humblest beginning — AA'hat Avould be called at Home chandlers' shopkeepers of the very meanest description. When the war Avas on these people, to a man, grew rich at the expense of the Home shippers, Avho Avere flooding the market with every description of goods, which were knocked down at auction and paid for with their paper, most of which was dishonoured eventually and all but two or three, at the outside, smashed up and made themselves thereby. When that Avas played out, fires became the order of the day, and those who had failed to feather their nest one Avay did so by the other. The present beautiful and -well-built -city of Auckland has been almost entirely constructed by the criminal liberality of English insurance companies. Eighteen years ago, when I came here, it was a miserable collection of Avooden shanties, of which a fair sample still remains in that uninsurable block near the Bank of New Zealand. They burnt it down by the acre, and John Bull paid the account without a murmur. I could show you the correspondence between an agent here and a company at Home re a very glaring case that happened at the top of — street, at a dying newspaper office. It is a whole history in itself of Auckland practices, and worth publishing in a pamphlet, if only for the benefit of shareholders in insurance companies. HoaveA'er, it ended in nothing (John Bull wouldn't take it up) beyond the agent throwing up the agency in disgust, and the so-called "leaders of society" triumphing and piling up more money. When I can afford it I mean to have the tale printed, as it embraces a history of the noAV extinct neAvspaper, and the political business and legal characters connected with it and the conflagration. This letter was called forth through your remarks on banks, and is not intended for publication, although you are at liberty to use any part of it you like. — I am., etc., X.Y.Z.

* We have solemnly sworn never again to reply to "Billingsgate" with " Billingsgate," but in justice to Mr Brett and Mr Barton, whose names were somewhat unwarrantably used in our issue of the 23rd instant, it is necessary that we shoxild refer briefly to Mr Brames' five columns of explanation in Saturday's Free Press. Firstly, then, let us once more reiterate that Mr Brett, of the Star, is not a partner in the OBSERVER, and lias nothing wJiatever to do with its management. When the paper first

started we didn't feel justified in expending £250 on a machine, and for this reason contracted -with the Star people to do the machining for us. They are paid for the Avork, as they have been paid for everything else we have had from them, every Tuesday morning ; and the receipts are at the disposal of anyone who feels any curiosity on the matter. .a s for saying that the articles in the Observer are submitted to Mr Brett for revision or excision, that is all nonsense. The editor of the Star, besides being an intimate personal friend of ours, has far more journalistic experience ; and once or twice (not more than half-a-dozen times, perhaps, in all) we have asked him as a favour to glance at such and such a paragraph, and say whether it was untrue or libellous, or calculated to do us harm. If Mr Brame and those who think like him were to run their eyes over a file of the Obsebvkk, instead of running their heads against impervious walls of plain fact, they would see in many issues ample proof that Mr Brett has nothing to do with this journal. Why, the policies of the Star and the Observer are as different as chalk from cheese, and we have hardly ever agreed on any single question ; moreover, supposing Mr Brett to be a partner in the Observer how comes it that he can't prevent his own personal friends from being chatted or slated in the paper ? *-

The stoppage of the machine on Wednesday fortnight, -which Mr Brain c considers so significant, is in reality proof positive that Mr Brett can have no say in the OBSERVER. The facts are these : — We Avrote the article on " Iscariot the Second" without the faintest reference to anyone. The statements about Mr Brame which it contains were picked up at the Star office long ago, and are as well known to most of the employees there as to ourselves. When the formes went over to the Star that Wednesday afternoon, Mr Barton saw that his and Mr Brett's names were mentioned in the leading article, and took a copy of the sheet up to the latter. Both gentlemen were very much annoyed, because (so they said) " Brame is sure to say and think we have inspired the article." This led to Mr Brett stopping the machine and sending for us. Well, it was some time before we could be found, and when we heard of the stoppage of the machine we were in our turn much annoyed, and entirely declined in any way to alter the article. Mr Barton was very angry about the matter, but we declined to give Avay, and the leader went into the paper exactly as it was written. This can be proved by the MSS., which is quite at Mr Brame's disposal. «. A correspondent writes : " The reference in the excellent pen and ink portrait of Dr Pollen in a recent issue, to the fact of that gentleman having ' seceded ' from the religion of his fathers, reminds me of a little incident which occurred, in the Auckland Club some years ago, when it occupied the building now used by the new Auckland Club, called by irreverent people the ' Boys' Club.' It was a Friday, and a large number of gentlemen were sitting at lunch. Among them was a Catholic gentleman (who was not ashamed to conform to the requirements of his church, and who was making his lunch off fish) and Dr Pollen, who was eating meat. The latter jeeringly said to the former, ' Ha, you are one of the good people who starve themselves once a week. ' ' Yes, ' was the reply, ' and if everyone acted according to the dictates of his conscience you also would be eating fish.' The doctor got as near to blushing as he ever did in his life, and, hastily finishing his lunch, went away to keep an appointment. «, To the Editor : Dear Sir, — There is a good stoiy going the rounds among the "jam tarts " belonging to the aristocratic suburbs of Parnell. Mrs B. gave a party a short time ago, and Miss X., from the South, being in town at the time, made a wager of a pair of gloves witha Mr W. that she would get an invitation to it. After this some days passed, but no invitation came, so Miss K. made up her mind that she would call on Mrs B. about the matter, as she

felt sure she must have heen forgotten. On arriving at the house the young lady knocked gently, and a Mrs G., a friend who was assisting Mrs B. in preparations for the party, answered the door, and informed Miss K. that Mrs B. was engaged, and could not see any person except on particular business Miss K. said her business was very particular indeed. Mrs B. then came on the 'scene, and after the usual curtesies passed Miss X said she had been stopping in town for the last fortnight or so, and hearing that Mrs B. was going to give a party, thought perhaps she had sent her invitation home to the South. Mrs B. cooly informed her that she never intended to either send an invitation or ask her, at the same time bidding the young lady good morning and shutting the door. An eye witness says that he never saw a girl look so crestfallen before. Gloves gone, and the pleasure of a dance, too. Such is life— l am, &c., One who Knows.— [We can't say we think Mrs B. behaved in a very lady -like manner. If the young girl was a friend of hers there was surely nothing very extraordinary in her asking for an invitation as described. — Ed. Obs.] . Sir, — The following is a clipping from an English paper: — "The British public, in the long run, brings its common sense to bear on this multiplication of titles. People are chary of attaching importance to titles they do not understand ; and even the oldest, richest, and most powerful educational institution in the world — the University of Oxford — has failed to gain currency for a title of its creation. I refer to that of A.A. — Associate in Arts — given to successful senior candidates at its local examinations. Candidates have passed the examination in thousands, but the title is not used, it is as if it were not." This extract proves two things, viz., that in England it is not thought worth while to make use of the school boy's distinction of A.A., and that it is the University of Oxford, and not that of Cambridge, which confers it. At least one person in Auckland is therefore laying claim to the title (such as it is) of A.A. under false pretences, for he asserts he gained it by passing the senior local examination of Cambridge University, which does not profess to confer it. After this caution, if he is fool enough to blazon it forth ad nauseam an hitherto, the public will reckon him at his true worth, which, to set down in words, would perhaps be too plain speaking. — I am, etc., Vigilans. . He is an active and efficient guardian of the peace in a certain colonial city, situated somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. But lie was caught napping one night recently, and this was how it was : — Loud and many were the complaints made by the residents of the aristocratic suburb of • concerning the ruthless behaviour of a band of larrikins, whose nocturnal amusements had become a plague to the neighbourhood. These complaints at last reached the ears of the subject of this veracious story — the active and efficient guardian of the 2>eace aforesaid — and he determined to put a stop to the nuisance by capturing a few specimens of the genus hoodlum inflagrante delicto. The evening on which he determined to execute his commendable scheme was calm and beautiful. When the peeler arrived at not a larrikin could be seen, but he knew they would soon put in an appearance and commence their orgies; so, with the caution of a Red 'Indian, he esconsed liimself in a cart lying by the wayside, and with his watchful eye jammed against the tail-board, he awaited further developments. He continued his vigilance for full half-an-hour, when, alas for frail humanity, he fell asleep. Yes, awful to relate, the drowsy god got the "bobby" fairly in his grasp, which our friend demonstrated by snoring in a thoroughly conscientious and bona fide manner ; and, in the words of the American humorist— " Loudly and frequently did that peeler snore, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more." Now several ragged urchins, with unkempt locks and shoeless feet, had watched -with heavy heart from the shelter of an adjacent fence the laying of the cruel trap intended to stop the only amusement of their evenings from home. A heavenly ray of joy illumined their dirty little faces when the policeman commenced his slumbers. Having waited long enough to convince themselves that it was a straight affair, one of the band stepped forward and noiselessly removed the tail-board of the dray, whilst half-a-dozen others seized the shafts and tilted up the vehicle, sending the somnolent constable head first into a pool of dirty water. Exeunt hoodhmis. * A good story is told at the expense of the landlord of one of the numerous hotels in the flourishing city of Taupiri. A few days since : the worthy honiface in question .made his appearanbe at the next township, where a constable is stationed, in a state of intense excitement. A gigantic swamper, he said, had come upon the premises, "gone into and finished the stable-man, kissed the cook, broken the crockery, and finished up by throttling the landlord and taking charge of the whole concern. " From the description the constable imagined that Chang, finding things dull in the show line, had gone in for swamping, and was having a terrific spree on his first cheque. Old Ham was, however, equal to the occasion ; so, procuring a mountain howitzer and a dozen or so of blunderbusses and bludgeons, he started for the scene of operations at once. Great was his surprise on arrival to find the formidable individual dwindle to rather a diminutive specimen of the genus swamper, who at first sight of the constable's uniform vamoosed with remarkable celerity to the congenial shades of the Piako Swamp. The differences between Messrs Pollard and Reynolds were of a somewhat perious character, and at one time it certainly looked as if the lawyers were going to reap a rich harvest out of the quarrel. At length, however, Mr Pollard was persuaded to submit the dispute to friendly arbitration, and on Tuesday afternoon it was arranged, after much discussion, that Mr Reynolds should abandon all future rights

etc. to the " Pinafore J> troupe, on receiving^ fair sum as compensation. In order to wind up matters instanter, both parties, accompanied by the arbitrators, proceeded to Messrs Russell and Devore's office, where the requisite documents were drawn up and signed and a cheque and bill handed over. Here, one might have thought matters would end, but when Mr Reynolds went to cash his cheque, next morning, he was met by the ominous announcement, "payment stopped;" To interview Mr Pollard on the subject was the work of a fewminutes.and so cogent, not to say imperative, were Mr Reynolds persuasions, that, within half-an-hbur, he had the cheque cashed and the money in his pocket. "What can have induced Mr Pollard to countermand the cheque, after willingly handing it over in the presence of six or seven persons, it boots not to enquire. His 1 conduct throughout has been most extraordinory, indeed many of the staunchest friends of the troupe have been utterly disgusted with it. *_

Some friends of the "clerical gay Lothario," to whom reference was made last week, have called to assure us that there is another side to the story about the alleged seduction, which entirely exculpates his reverence. If there is, all we can say is we shall he glad to hear it, and our columns are quite at the parson's disposal. We have no feeling whatever in the matter, and only desire that justice should be done. It is, however, right to say that so far we have heard nothing to make us change our original opinion, which was not come to without interviewing a number of important witnesses. -+- __ The City East School Committee would be none the worse if a little more daylight were let into their doings. For some months a poor struggling woman named Kennedy was in receipt of a nominal weekly sum from the Board for cleaning out the school-room, but the local Committee, in a sudden fit of economic zeal, reduced the amount by one-third. When the new school building was erected the Committee invited tenders for the cleaning of the two school-rooms, and various offers were received. The lowest was that of the charwoman Kennedy, and the highest was sent in by a Mr F., living out of the district. But the most talkative, and probably for that reason the most influential of the Committee, aMr W., managed to have the tender of Mrs F. accepted. This was on two grounds. Ist, that he had actually observed Mr Kennedy (the other woman's husband) twice enter the York Hotel and imbibe intoxicating liquors ; and 2nd, that Mrs F. never drinks anything stronger than tea. Well, hardly ever. ' Mr W. is a rabid Rechabite. Three young ladies (yes, "young," although one of them was married) went on a visit to a friend in one of our most delightful suburban districts very recently. Here they enjoyed themselves for some little time, and in the course of events formed the acquaintance of a very reverend young gentleman. The time arrived for the departure of our lady friends and their new acquaintance offered his services as escort. On the trip home, which was ex ceedingly jolly, he paid marked attention to one of the ladies — the married one, unfortunately — much to the astonishment of her companions. In fact, it was really a case of "spoons." The lady upon whom his sweet outpourings were lavished took the affair in good part, and mentioned it in fun to some of her friends. By-and-bye the joke leaked out, and got to the ears of our jovial parson, who, it appears, then, for the first time discovered that the lady had not only a husband but a family He is at present considering whether it will be better to meet his bitter end by jumping over the wharf or resorting to the use of a first-class revolver. -«■ There are of course many good stories flying about, concerning his sable majesty King Ta« whiao's triumphal progress through the Waikato. The following one besides being good, has the additional advantage of being true. A Waikato settler was talking to one of his majesty's bodyguard, and suggested the propriety of the royal party proceeding to Auckland on the arrival of the young Princes, so that his majesty might become acquainted with the sons of the rival monarch. The royal guardsman agreed that much good might be engendered through such a meeting. "But," said the settler, "how would his majesty, in such a case," go to Auckland ; would he drive or go in the train ?" " Oh," said the guardsman, " Tawhiao him poor man ; he no drive or go in train — he walk." We were at a ball recently when, as not unusually happens, the custodian of the hats and coats got jolly drunk. All the tickets were misplaced, and the cloak-room became a perfect " sea of confusion. We entered the room, but found it an almost hopeless task amongst the crowd of searchers to discover our own Delong-

ings, so we determined to wait until the crush was over. Standing outside the cloakroom door, we casually remarked to a fellow-sufferer that it was too bad placing a man addicted to drink in charge of the cloakroom. "Oh," he remarked, "you are not half a traveller ; I went in and found I couldn't succeed in discovering my own hat, so I took the first oae that fitted 'me, and a very comfortable one it is." We had heard of such things being done, but it seemed astounding to find it talked about in such a barefaced manner. However, we naturally turned our eyes" upon "my gentleman's" coat, and at once discovered that this "old traveller" had invested himself in the very garment we had been lookingfor. The youth wasn't a bit abashed upon discovering {that the coat was our property; on the contrary, he thought it a splendid joke. He divested himself of it, however, and then coolly entered the cloak-room, from which he shortly emerged in another one, which we found on enquiry also did not belong to the *' old traveller." ♦ P The use of Latin terms and phrases in our law courts is frequently a source of mystification to the policemen and others who have "not included that language in their course of study. This was exemplified in an amusing manner the other day. An individual was passing up the Barrack Hill, when he met a decidedly Hibernian policeman coming from the Supreme Court. The constable appeared to be in a state of great mental excitement, and, pausing in his rapid walk, he informed the person referred to that New Zealand was an ungodly country, and that it was going to the devil. The listener expressed astonishment, and enquired the reason for a course so extraordinary. With the burning eloquence of his country, the policeman pointed out instances of our wickedness in the past, and then astounded his friend by informing him that the Judge had just adjourned the Court till Sunday, and that the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah would certainly overtake Auckland for such disgraceful desecration of the Sabbath. The listener was naturally amused, and, having put several questions to his informant, he became satisfied in his own mind that the Court had been adjourned sine die, and not till Sunday. But the policeman was positive that the crier said "Sunday," so perhaps he did. To the Editor : Sir, — I trust you will allow me to make one or two remarks on your Wellington correspondent's telegram as to the Farnall claims. The whole paragraph is so untruthfully racy that I will, with your permission, just take it sentence by sentence. He opens by saying, ' ' We very happily got over the business of Mr H. Farnall last week, when Moss did his level best for his client. The debate Avas very amusing, and no. one seemed more to enjoy it than George McLean, who shelved the question for six months." I wonder whether George McLean would have extracted the same amount of amusement from it if the cases had been reversed, if, for instance, he had been in my shoes, and I had been in his ? George McLean is a very rich man, though he was not always so. To a noicveau riche of the mental calibre of George McLean, nothing affords so much amusement as the spectacle of a poor man struggling in vain to get his rights. Your correspondent says, " Rolleston told the House all about the aftair, and he had the papers before him on his bench while so doing. I have a better opinion of Mr Rolleston than to suppose that he would wilfully mislead the House, therefore I can only presume from what follows that, so far from telling the House all about the affair, he absolutely didn't know all about it himself. Your correspondent goes on to say : "In 1876 Farnall got from the House £139, being £75 for his passage, £27 for his salary, £10 for office furniture, and £27 for dismissal without notice." Now, as regards the first item, £75 for my return passage to New Zealand, I was absolutely entitled to this, and it ought, as a matter of course, to have been paid me in England by the Agent-General, so why should I have been compelled to go to the House and petition for it ? As well might each member of the House of Representatives be compelled to petition each session for the cost of his passage money to and from the seat of Government. The next item is £27 for salary. Now, my salary as agent was £700 a-year, and tliis was paid me monthly at the rate of £58 6s 8d a month. The AgentGeneral summarily dismissed me at the end of a month, owing me that one month's salary — that is, £58 6s 8d ; this amount should, of •course, also have been paid me when due by the Agent-General. Instead of that, I had to petition Parliament for it, and, after the Petition Committee had considered it, they deducted rather more than half. On what sort of principle they worked is a thing that "no fellah can understand," for the facts are exactly .as I state them. What a nice state of affairs it would be if every now and then a month's salary was deducted from every officer in the Civil .Service, and that then the officials were forced to petition Parliament for payment of the amount .so deducted ! And yet that is exactly what I was compelled to submit to. It is all very well to say I obtained these moneys from the House, but the House ought never to have had anything to do with it. The next item is £10 for office furniture. Now, this was not furniture for my own office at all, but furniture that I provided for the General Government Agent's office, as the Agent said he was not in a position at the time to pay for it himself. This item -was passed by the Agent-General, and ought also to have been paid by him at once to me. Instead of that, I had to petition Parliament for it also. I may remark here that more than once, after I ceased to hold my emigration appointment under the General Government, I funds out of my own pocket to assist in the emigration work. For instance, when the Queen of Nations was to leave Belfast for Auckland, the emigrants (some three hundred or more) were instructed to be in Belfast on a certain day. They arrived, but the weather was so unfavourable they were unable to go on board, and lodgings had to be obtained for them in town. The next morning they were ordered to muster on the quay, but the various lodginghouse keepers declined to let them go or move

their things until their bills were paid. This was an unpleasant fix. The Government Agent had no funds at his disposal for this purpose, so to assist him and expedite the work I advanced the money. After paying all the bills, and mustering the emigrants, the Aveather became again unfaA r oui'able, and the lodging - house business had to be all gone through over again. The money I then advanced Avas (all except £5) shortly after returned to me. The only thanks I got for this Avas a member of the Petition Committee asking me in the broadest Scotch, " If I did na think it Avas very injudeecious to advance money in this Avay, Avithout ony seecurity for its repayment !" The next festive item is £27 for dismissal without notice. Noav, did anyone ever hear of any official, employed as I Avas at a salary of £700 per annum, receiving less than a fortnight's salary in lieu of notice ; the thing is absurd. As a fact, I claimed six months, or £350 ; and I Avas clearly entitled to that amount, for I remained at my post, and continued to do business Avith the Agent-General's office for six months. It Avas not until six months had expired after my dismissal that the Agent-General sent anyone over to relieve me. "This," as your correspondent concisely puts it, " settled up his claims on the General Government." I should term it a settling down. Your correspondent proceeds : ' ' The same session he petitioned for redress for his 'loss as Provincial Immigration Officer for Auckland. The value put on his services can be gleaned from the fact that the Provincial Council voted him no salary. This is very unkind, and, moreover, it is truth founded upon a lie ; and I should think this slap must emanate from your correspondent, and not from Mr Rolleston. The salary should have been voted before the services Avere rendered. It Avas the Superintendent's duty, Avho appointed me, to have seen that this Avas done. This not being done is where I came to grief. As a matter of fact, the Provincial Council Avere never asked, as they should have been, to vote me a salary, either before the services were rendered or afterwards, because Avhen I returned to New Zealand the Councils Avere defunct. Your correspondent proceeds, however, "In 1878 he again petitioned Parliament, and got £275. He then gave a receipt in full of all demands." There is one little error in this statement. He didn't give the receipt in full; it A\ r as forced from him, which makes all the difference. The Government figuratively held a pistol to my head, and demanded " Your money, or your life." I virtually had no option in the matter. Your correspondent concludes with the pithy remark, " Last year he came again, and this year he comes again," to Avhich lean only add, "And next year he will go again, and the folloAving one also, and the one after that, each year and every year, until the claim is fairly settled." And this I shall do, not so much on account of the money (though I can ill afford to lose that), but because I Avill not submit tamely to be the A r ictim of an act of gross injustice, and because I feel perfectly confident that the time is not far distant AA r hen the George McLeans of the political Avorld Avill be relegated to their proper position, and equal justice Avill be meted out to all alike. — I am, etc., H. W. Farnall.— [A resume of the debate on Mr Famuli's claims Avill be found elsewhere. The subject is now closed. — Ed. Obs.]