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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 256, 29 October 1877, Page 4

Our telegrams from Timaru published last week intimated that Judge Ward had threatened the proprietor of the South Canterbury Times with a libei action on account of some statements that paper contained in connection with the dreary Waka M aori case. Instead of humbly apologising as demanded, and giving £100 to the Timaru Hospital, our contemporary throws down the gauntlet and observes :—* " Many people there a<-e in New Zealand, — especially among those in high places, — who have long and patiently awaited a chance of getting Mr C. D. Ward in the witness-bos. It seems that rare privilege will soon be within our grasp, aud we can only receive our numerous friends 1 congratulations by assuring them — with all due modesty, — that we fully intend to make the most of it. Able, talented, and experienced as Mr Ward undeniably ia, nothing could possibly satisfy the cravings oi journalistic hearts better tban to join iesue with him in the interests of pubiic morality — let alone of polilio'-l exigencies, the tone of which unfortunately is at a very sad discount just now.