MOHI V. CRAIG.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 563, 30 October 1871, Page 1 (Supplement)

MOHI V. CRAIG.

To the Editor of the Evening Star

Sir, —I have just seen the bill of MacCornuck and McKechnie, solicitors, Auckland, in the above cause. They claim £553 lls lOd; the Registrar struck off £146 10s 10J, leaving them £407. May 1 ask what should be said of any firm c'aimiug respectability, having about a third of their monstrous claim disallowed, as not due P And what must Hi 3 Honor the Chief Justice think of people who have tried to make such a use of the one shilling damages directed to be given to M'lhi ova point of law. The Chief Justice is allowed on all sides to be most desirous to do justice to all men; therefore his feelings for Craig's wrongs, inflicted through tiie instrumentality of the Supreme Court, must make him fowl most uncomfortable ; and it ia to be hoped that, like Judge Beckham,

His Honor will soon see a way to put a stop to such vile practices, and prostitution of the Court.

Craig has already paid over £4000 legal expenses in trying to keep peaceable possession of his property, owned and occupied for about ten years. He has had taken from him by incomprehensible legal plotting more than£4ooo worth of limber, during the last few years, by the same means, and is now virtually kept out of possession of a property worth £10,000 by similar legal process.

It is almost incredible that such a state of things can be found in a British community, yet such is the truth. lam told that the native whose name has been made use of to cover the proceedings is a mere tool in the hands of designiug schemers ; and if only a tenth of what I am assured is true, others than Mohi are speculators in the base transaction.

I have at great trouble and expense laid the facts of the ease before the General tssembly at Wellington, and hope, with the aid of the Press of New Zealand, to make the rascality of the treatment of Craig sufficiently known to secure redress. I beg to thank you for the able assistance you have hitherto rendered to the good cause, arid ask you to continue to do so. —lam, &c,

J. S. Macfarlane.