THE COLONIAL SECRETARY’S REPLY TO MR. BARTON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5535, 23 December 1878, Page 2

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY’S REPLY TO MR. BARTON.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 26th Dec., 1878. Sir, —I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday’s date, being a rejoinder to mine of the 12th instant. As the Government has at your request exhaustively examined into all the specific charges contained in yours of the sth November, —amongst which X may remark there was none relating to your imprisonment for contempt, and as you have been duly informed of the decision at which it has arrived upon each of the twelve charges enumerated, —the correspondence upon this subject has reached its natural conclusion, and no useful purpose can be served by reopening it. Otherwise it would have been my duty to return your letter last received, as the language it contains is at variance with the wellunderstood courtesies of official correspondence, and the insinuation that Judge Richmond was consulted in reference to your charges, or was even cognisant of the decision of the Government, is as untrue as it is gratuitously insulting to the Cabinet and the Law Officers of the Crown.— l have, &0., G. S. Whitmore. G. E. Barton, Esq., M.H.K., Wellington.