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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 974, 20 December 1882, Page 2

It may be worthy of note, says the Wellington Post, that by the Brindisi mail, delivered in Wellington on Wednesday, 6th December, replies were received to letters sent Home by the San Francisco mail which left here on 10th September. The latter was delivered in London on 20th October, the day on which the outward Brindisi mail which arrived on Wednesday was despatched. The replies were thus received in 87 days, or two calendar months and 26 days from the date of the original letters being despatched. This is probably the quickest time in which the double journey has ever been performed. A telegram in a contemporary gives the following quotation from an article in the Wellington Post on the Adams conspiracy case :—“ The whole case is a bewildering jumble of extraordinary contradictions. The prisoner now declared incapable of the crime alleged, has suffered her. whole punishment ; the prisoner who was declared to have been convicted on false evidence, has suffered the chief part of his punishment. The two could not possibly both have been justly punished : one conviction and sentence must have been unjust. The third prisoner’s conviction was utterly inconsistent with that of Longhurst ; its quashing is equally inconsistent with the sentencing of his daughter. A more striking instance of the fallibility of human reason, human law, and human- testimony was, probably, never before presented to an 1 astonished and bewildered public.”