OUR RESIDENT MAGISTRATE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 103, 29 January 1870, Page 5

OUR RESIDENT MAGISTRATE.

(To tlie Editor of the Tuapeka Times). Sir, — I thought on reading last Satur-, day's paper that the correspondents signing themselves "Justitia" and "Fairpiay" were rather hard on our worthy Magistrate ; but after the treatment I received to-day at his hands, lam not at all sur- ( prised at the remarks contained therein . ' for I happening to be called on as a witness (for the first time in my life to be in ; a witness box, and I am now 43 years) in . ■ the case of O'Leary v. Wootton and Cowie, "• and having the misfortune to have n stoppage in my speech, h& told me he would not hear my evidence, as I was f drunk, as he said, which 1 state, and can /* prove to be a thorough falsehood ; for on' looking round me in the Court, I beheld numbers of people who could safely assert I was sober. It appears the Warden do not like a poor man to get a living. I was called on to give an opinion respecting the damage done in said case, and done so. lam 20 years in New Zealand and other colonies, and never had an occasion to be called as a witness before By publishing this you will oblige, yours, &c, Charles Darby. Wetherstones, Jan, 27. [We insert Mr. Darby's letter just a*. we received it.— Ed. "T.T."]