Edward's report either. But from what I can gather from what seems a short hand report of the evidence in the Wanganui Herald, the charges made by Middlemas, and Blake utterly broke down, on men of the most futile and trivial character. Noake is virtually suspended, and disgraced before the public, and his friends of whom he has many, and many most respectable, are very sore at his being placed in the position