To the Editor of the Evening Star.

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

To the Editor of the Evening Star.

Sic, —The alarming disclosures of injustice inflicted on an old settler through the medium of the Supreme Court, must surely result in Legislative interference. To my mind, it is really astonishing that some action has not been manifested ere this. The Courts of Great Britain have always been considered to be a terror to evil doers, and a protection to honesty, industry, and enterprise; why then should so glaring a case of gross imposition be tolerated by the Supreme Court of Auckland, without even a remark from the presiding Judge ? The jury manfully and opeuly avowed their opinions of the detestable schemers, how then can the silence of the Court be accounted for? It is quite possible that the law which has done so great a wrong to Craig may have been misinterpreted ; but even, if not so, and if the law is too clear to be misunderstood, then surely the Chief Justice m'ght at all events while administering a bad law, have uoticed in some way or other, so as toh.'lp to soften the sufferings of Craig, and to give to him hope to expect that the Chief Justice would have the matter laid before the Legislature.

Legislators are only human creatures, liable to err, but no one will suppose that the errors by which Cr.iig has been so grievously injured are wilful errors. In all my experience of more than thirty years in the old couutry, I never heard of such a scandal as that of Molii v. Craig; and I not only hope never to hear of such, another, but L hope soon to know that the Legislature and the Supreme Court will have done justice, tor what has been Craig's case may be anyone's to-morrow. In bringing about such a result the Press can give great assistance.—Yours. &i\, A. Merchant.