SIR JOHN HALL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1395, 1 November 1886, Page 2

SIR JOHN HALL

The Ft tiding Star says that It has feen a pri ate letter in which hir John Hail states that It is unlikely he will ever again enter the field of New Zealand The cause is the ill-advised a ti.in of hungry newsmongers in “advertising ” the notorious Thomas Hall’s family connection with Sir John. Upon the same subj ct the Wellington crr.-os-pondent of the New Zetland Herald wtitea.—“l have heard from a good source that tha first news of a reliab'e chara-t:r which Sir John received about the Timaru poisoring case was at the B uff,. after the exhumaticn of Captain Cain’s body and the polioo»enquiry. He then understood for the first time the nature of the charge, the particulars obtained in support of h, and the imminence of a trial in the Huprerne Court, which would probably arrest the attention of English-speaking people in every part of the w; rid, I have hoard it stated, as coming from a fellow passenger, that until he landed at Lyttelton Sir John Hall never left the cabin. Ha intimated a wish that his name, aud those of his family, should be omitted from the passe-ger list, and ho remains in oomparat.ve s-olasiou on his estate In bury.”