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Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 21 November 1867, Page 4

(to the editor op the independent.) g IK) — i n your leading article of to-day'a date, you use those words — " The startling-and novel legal opinion expressed fay Mr Borlaso the other duy in fche [Resident Magistrate's Court— that if a creditor asked payment of his account from a pereon to whom his debt had beentransferred by the original debtor, it was sufficient proof that he had accepted the transference of the liability and thereby released the person who originally , owed the money." Now I beg to state that I gave no such opinion 5 as advocate for Mr E. Bull I argued that the facts, as proved, showed that Mr McCarthy had accepted Mr Parsons as his debtor I in the place of Messrs Bull. As a rule I seldom notice any misstatementa made in newspapers respecting myself, but you will boo that this matter is still in litigation, and 1 that it would not bo fair for you to prejudice the [ cause of Messrs Bull ; and I have no doubt that argument' will come home to you with groater force, when you remember the many passages of arms there have been between your paper the Independent and the Advertiser conduoted by the Messrs Bull. Your's &e, 0. B. Boblasb.

ExroßT 01? CorrKtt. — A return recently published, shows that, from 1853 to 1866, inclusive, there was exported from New Zealand, 2374 tons, Bcwt of copper ore; That export, commencing with 170 tons in 1853, had increased to 510 tons ra 1856 ; that was the greatest quantity exported m any year ; and thero being a decrease from 351* in 1858 to 51 tons in 1862, no copper ore has been sent out of the colony since then. Of chrome ore, the colony has exported 6306 tons, 3cwfc 2qr. The first chrome left our shores in 1858, the quantity being 3 tons 2cwt 2qr j and since then;ttaere has been a yearly export (excepting during 1865), the quantity shipped last year being 281 tons. Just seven tons of plumbago had been/exported up to the end of 1866— 5 tons 8 cwfc ia 1857, and 1 ton 12cwt in 1864 These statistics, wft fancy are illustrative of the 'history of fcbe Bun Mountain Company, or of other undertakings directly connected with the Nelson protroo^