ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 815, 22 November 1878, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

ro TSffc. KI'IT-.K Til,. i.VLN! \0 MAIL. St!i, —1 shall fuel obliged by yonr inserting the enclosed copy ot' ietterto the Canterbury Tip.ies, contradicting a libellous article which appeared in the issue of their paper of 10th instant, which was calculated to injure pending sales of the ('ompany's properties. <t. Kcssku., Attorney for the New Zealand and Australian land Company, Limited. Dunndin N.Z., 21st Nov., IS7S. To the pioprieco.s of the Canterbury Times. Gentlemen, —My attention has been directed to a srni.-meiit contained in your issue of the Uit-li inst., to the eil'eet that the failuie of the City rf Glasgow Bank and that of a person therein cal:ed " iir. Martin, of Glasgow,"' had resulted in tint eoll.-ipso of the New Zealand and Australian Laud Company, ai'd had necessitated the immediate sale of its i.iii.k. A-s the authorised attorney of the Company, ! write, in the iiivt place, to contradict iliac- statement most emphatically, and to say rime- the po-eh.m r.f 111■ New" Zealand and La: id Loin;iany is in no way aiioeted by ihe :a: lures in tiuestion. nor has any sale of ic.s land- been thereby rendered necessary—the sales now in contemplation having been determined upon long before these even:s. .L.i the next place, T Ik-lt to give you notice ihyfc in the ewnt of any depreciation of the Company's Jaud, attributable to the gross iibel above referred to, an action will be broeght- a_e'!is'; yon for the recovery of exemplary damage-;.—l »m. •Sc.. Ci-:o. <j. Kc.<ski.i» (Fur <f ■,icirn wc ' >']>jl<'r,ierit )