LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1665, 19 June 1875, Page 3

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

DUNEDIN.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day,

The legality of certain reserves in Southland is to be tested in the Supreme Court, Certain blocks, originally known as hospital reserves, and for them application was made to purchase. The contention of the applicant is by the cancellation of the original reservation. The Land Board for the present has decided against the applicant. The applicant, if successful, receives a virtual gift of about £7000.

The Missing Treasury Notes. The alleged robbery of the bank notes from the Treasury proves unfounded. The enquiry by Mr Strode shows no theft or wrong-doing. The parcel was found in such a position as to leave no doubt it was never removed from the Treasury box, in which it was brought to town. Branch Railways. Last night the Provincial Council affirmed that all branch railways sanctioned in the second schedule, over a million shall be constructed out of loan, the t Government intimating it would consider the purchase of the Bluff railway by the General Government as an advance. • Mr. Macassey and Mr. SmithIn this morning's Guardian, Mr James Smith, in an advertisement, has again thrown down the gauntlet to Mr Macafsey. After alluding to some of the public being in doubt as to whom he alluded in the former letter, he goes "on to say: —"I have waited more than a reasonable time to see whether the challenge would be taken up; but as nothing has been done, the time has now arrived for me to be thoroughly explicit. Therefore, I now beg to say Mr Macassey is the member of the legal profession referred to, and I repeat the charges : first, that Mr Macassey obtained, in a disreputable manner, a garbled statements of the substance of telegrams sent by Judge Ward to Mr Vogel ; and secondly, he (Macassey) descended to the consummate baseness of J hiring 'spiea to dog the footsteps of Judge Ward in private life. Although usuaUy remarkably prompt in resenting real or fanciedSinjury to his reputation, Mr Macassey has hitherto made no sign of any intention of attempting to answer these charges. It is painfully obvious that unless he refutes them or unless upon my being summoned to the Supreme Court, if at all, to justify them, a grave and lasting stigma will rest upon him, such as no honorlble man would endure. For myself I maybe allowed to say I have nowjdone that which, in the absence of any action on Se part of the Law Society, for which I have been waiting in vain, I conceived to be my d?tV tTthe profession to which I belong, and to Society in general. I have brought Mr MaSftotilo bar of public opinion, the sole tribunal to which he is ainenab c for the acts inSed to him. It now remains to be seen whether he will endeavour to vindicate his character, or qu etly let judgment go by answers Mr. Smith this morn ng Sclinfng to enter the contest; with him. He says when he enters the listlit Sust be with a more manly antagonist. " The foul atmosphere in which . I dweh must be very foul, but I have not yet Ascended to issuing offensivegggggg street* come* vifcu_**^v. .7 to mom/mvv*

I Swspaper attacks on professional brethren. " [He says Mr. Sin th's.action arises from professional jealousy, and proceeds—"l have little doubt my professional brethren concur that one aspiring to the credit of a gentleman, and religious to boot, who can permit for months one continued stand of vituperation, slander, and abuse, is, to say the least, unfit for the society of gentlemen, from which he will ere long be expelled." Mr. J. L. Gillies writes, that Mr. Smith's references towards the Chapman investigation is not a statement of facts. FrOm what transpired, Mr. Macassey, he says, has nothing to dread from the fullest enquiry. Mr Macandrew on Abolition. Mr Macandrew on proroguing the Council to-day said he cordially agreed that the proposed constitutional change should be defined and then calmly and deliberately considered by the people. If this were done abolition would find few supporters.