LEGAL ROBBERY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1935, 17 March 1875, Page 3

LEGAL ROBBERY.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —I wish to draw"public attention to the following facts -.—Some time since, I obtained judgment against a man named Linton for (costs included) £36, or thereabouts, and the Court made'an order (his own offer) to pay £2 per month until tb*e whole of the debt and costs were satisfied. First payment became due March Ist, and was paid. I now find, by report, that Linton has filed his schedule, and the first meeting takes place this day, in Auckland; yet, although he is endevouring to go through the Court to best me, no opportunity has been given me to have my interests looted after, no advertisement having appeared in either paper here notifying his bankruptcy. I find to my .sorrow that it is no use going to Court to recover money, having spent £]& in trying to recover £24.. The whole had better been pitched into the sea. I am in.a worse position than I was at starting. A man only wants an unscrupulous lawyer at his elbow to ride roughshod over all the laws in .New Zealand. Being a poor man, and having a family to support, I must cave in for want of

funds; but, before I do, I hope some Auckland creditors will cause a strict investigation into the accounts'between J. C. Linton and his landlord or employer, Mr J. 0. McCormack. I trust Linton will satisfactorily account for the cargo of kauri posts or sleepers betook to Auckland in the cutter Eupheniia in November last. (Query, whose kauri logs were they ? Were they McCormack's, or Mr Preece's of Coromandel and other persons ?) Linton having declared in this Court; that he had no property -whatever except his beds, the dividend, won't be much; but to my .unprofessional eye, it dses seem strange that McCormack, supposed to»be the heaviest creditor, should give his advise and assistance to pass Linton through the Court. If he wants to do Linton a good turn, let him give him. a clear receipt and so enable him to meet his other engagements better. Linton has stated in Coromandel that he is going to Canterbury. Where is the money coming from ? out of the pockets of his creditors, no doubt. However, whatever Linton and J. 0. McCormack may do, J. shall not repudiate my engagements. As long as I have health and strength to work, I don't envy the man whose business it is to bring ruin to the home of a bard-working man. Many a wet jacket the Galatea cost me; envy and malace has deprived me of her. Apologising for intruding so much on your space, I am, &c, Joseph Low,ndes. Thames, March 15th, 1875.