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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 175, 24 July 1872, Page 4

Council of Nelson lor that place. I also know, and am well acquainted with John Maunder Langdon, of Grey Valley, in the Province of Nelson, settler. On or about the seventh day of June last, and before the tenth, the said John Maunder Langdon was in the house of my father iv Nelson, and in my presence he then stated that he had met the said Eugene Joseph O'Conor near the Government Buildings, at Nelson, upon the evening of Thursday, the 6th June then instant, and tbat he (Langdon) had then said to the said Eugene Joseph O'Conor ■■ I think yon have got yourself into a scrape. If I had heard what passed in the committee-room, I would make an apology to them for any contract, but if you know you have not done wrong I would advise you to fight it out. That the said Eugene Joseph O'Conor had replied to this, " I know I have not done wrong ; I didn't hear what passed in the committee-room, and I do intend to fight it out." I then discussed with the said John Maunder Langdon the probability of Mr. O'Conor having heard what passed in the committee-room, *nd the whole of the arguments of the said John Maunder Langdon were in violent opposition to Mr. O'Conor, and tending to shew that he must have heard what took place in the said commit-tee-room ; and at a later period of the conversation aforesaid lie stated to me that he had a strong dislike to Mr. O'Conor, and that if he could possibly do anything to injure him he would. 2. I have read a statutory declaration made on the 19th day of June, 1872, by the said John Maunder Langdon. purporting to give an account of the above mentioned conversation which he had had 'with Mr. O'Conor on the 6th day of June, 1872; and I say that in the account which he gave me of the same conversation he did not say that Mr. O'Conor appeared excited, or that he was ruined, or any words to that effect, nor that Mr. O'Conor had said, " By God, I did hear it ; I would rather have thrown myself into the river than it should have happened," or any words to that effect. But on ihe contrary, he (Langdon) admitted and declared that the said Eugene Joseph O'Conor throughout the conversation had persistently and positively affirmed his complete innocence. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue ot an Act of the Gf-neral Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the •* Justices of the Peace Act, 1866." Alexander Wilkie. Declared at Nelson by the said Alexander Wilkie, this 15th day ot July, 187', before me, Alexander Sclanders, A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.