LATEST TELEGRAMS

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 253, 20 December 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[Special to the Mail.]

[per press agency.]

Wellington, Dec. 19. *

The Melbourne Underwriters Association under date London, Dec. 18, report the arrival of the Columbus and the Duke of Argyle, from Lyttelton. Market quotations—Flour, Adelaide, £17 10s ; colonial, £11 ; oats, 4s 6d ; hams, lOd ; bacon, 9d ; cheese, 8d to to 9d ; potatoes, 13s ; butter, lOd to lid. The whole of Mr Barton's letter in reply to that of the Colonial Secretary is published, and is couched in. strong terms of dissatisfaction at the decision arrived at by the Government. He says the letter grossly garbles and misstates all his charges, and enly refutes imaginary charges invented by the writer, whom he plainly indicates as Judge Richmond, who, with another, combined to systematically slaughter the interests of clients in his (Barton's) hands and drive him from the profession. He says the searching enquiry which Government made was a miserable farce. After identifying Justice Richmond as the writer, it says every mean evasion, turn of thought, and form of expression betrays the writer, and points to the coincidence that the very day he (Barton) was officially informed that he would receive his reply from the Government as soon ns it was fairly copied, that day Judge Richmond steamed out of Wellington harbor on a trip, while for some time before that he was absent from his duties through '* illness." Steps are being taken for the release of Hill, who was recently sent to gaol for contempt, in disobeying au injunction of | tho Supreme Court.

(.ROM OUR OWN CORRIISPONDENT.)

TniAiuT, Dec. 19

At the sitting of the Supreme Court to-day, E. Ball, proprietor of the South Canterbury Times, was fined £50 for a criminal libel on Hayes and Benhamo, circus proprietors, btorling, for manslaughter, received six years. Two quarter-acre sections near the Railway Station have been., sold for £11.500. • , . V The new paper, the Ecening 1 elegraph, promises to be a decided success, '•'