THE MAIL IN TROUBLE.
The fallowing favor came to hand yesterday : '•'Ckristchijreh, Canterbury, IS.Z., "2nd October, IS7S. "Mr. George Jones, , " Evening Mail Office, Oamaru. " Sir, —I hive received instructions, on behalf of Mr. H. Middleton, of Waimate, to request that you will forthwith publish in your newspaper, as a leading article, a full sud unqualified retraction of a scandalous and libellous charge made against him in a leading article, which appeared in the same paper on the 25th September last, and an apol%,y for having inserted the article refeiredto. lam instructed that it is both false in fact and has a very injurious effect on Mr. Middleton. "lam further instructed to say that in the event of your omitting to comply with the foregoing' request, proceedings in the Supreme Court will be instituted against you. Yours obediently, " VV. JoYNT."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 774, 4 October 1878, Page 2
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