MR MACASSEY ON J.P.’S.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2390, 29 November 1870, Page 3

MR MACASSEY ON J.P.’S.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. J S IR [ read with amazement Mr Macaa- . scy’s statement in reference to the .Justices : of the Peace : that they were 'beggars in : character as well as in muse. ’Mr'Macas-ey also stated tlmt there were some of them to when', lie would not lend a live-pound note. Thanks,' however,’to the high price paid for law in Dunedin, Mr’ Macassey is now enabled to. do this, and I congratulate him on his present monetary position. But let that pass. I should like to know if Mr Macassey would Lave dared to have attacked the Judges of the Colony as he has attacked the more humble adminislrators of the law? J think not; and yet I should like to hear ■ from Mr Maeas-ey his candid opinion as to I the higle-r I oily, hi justice to those who hold tiie Commission of the Peace in DnnI edin, 1 think Mr Macassey should either have said that he did not refer to the mag is-

I rates of this City, or have given the names of the persons he meant when he made this sweeping condemnation. If he referred to Ota"i) or the Colony generally, he should have said so ; hut I presume this is of a piece with many of the tadi and absurd statements made by this raw and inexperienced politician. lain, Ac,, j.r. Dunedin, November *29.