THE CASE OF REDDEN V. KEPPLE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 200, 30 November 1871, Page 5

THE CASE OF REDDEN V. KEPPLE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — T see by your report of the ease Redden v. Kepple that you have careful ly avoided making any mentioc of Mr. Kepple having a dog on the occasion, also of his being in the habit of driving stock into my property. Furthermore, the AV.Trd.Mi, or R.M., refused me permission to recall Dr. Halley, so that I mi^ht bo able to rebut Mr. Kepple-'s eviderce by showing in what position I must have been standing at the iime when -the blow was struck. If I mistake not, Mr. • Kepple, in iraking his statement, said he struck the arm with which I was holding his bridle; afterwards he stated that I took hold ol !ii^ bridle ftifc'i nty ti^ht hand ; he also said [ struck him with the same hrnl. I would ask anyone with common sense if an idiot, afie* striking a man, would quietly stand by and hold a man's horse, against the man's wis'i, while he took off a stirrup to strike 1 ba»*k with.

A 8 for my mother's evidence going to show she saw a scrim mage between Mr. Kepple and myself, I think it is incorrect, unless you call the following evidence a scrimmage : — " I saw my son standing with both arms extended a<! IVIr. ICepple was <\ riving the cattle towards my son. Kejiplc rode with furee at him. My son appeared to turn away after some seconds. I saw Mr. Kepple strike at him as with a sling My son then ran away. Mr. Kepple appeared as though he was trying to ride over him. I saw Mr. Kepple strike five or six times. I then lost sight of my son, I thouirhfc he had struck him down. I then, ran towards them, and called, when I saw my son coming towards me."

In cross-examination she stated that she then went home, and fetched something. She did not know what - Mr. Kepple's solicitor might call it ; it was what she sometimes carried to keepr the pigs away, aud had knocked them about with her umbrella, aud broke it. — I am, &c,

Chas. Redde>\

[We give Sirs. Redden 1 * evidence as quoted by her son ; but whether it corresponds with our reporter's} iv>tes we have not had an opportunity of examining. In our next issue we have no dou l >t our court reporter will answer for himself. — Ed. "T.T."J

Among our English letters wo (" Wanganni Chronicle M ) have one the absurdity of which ia amusing, [t is from the London Post Office, aud informs us that a - packet posted fpr transmission to our address, as a sample or pattern, is detained, in consequence of not bein<jf a boua iila sample or pa;tern,bufcif we will nia'vO personal application for tbe packet afc the London office, between the hours of ten and four o'clock (on Saturday between ten aud one ; there is nothing like being particular) it will be delivered to us on production of the notice. Personal application !

The " New York Trader" furnishes a beautiful illustration of the benefits protection has conferred on America, iv the history of the iron trades of the A few years asjo under a revenue tariff the importation of. pig iron was about 70,000 ton 3 a year, and the blast furnaces of tho States successfully competed with tho imported article. Now, under a heavy protective tariff, the importation of iron rails to America is enormous, and in the month of July last alono amounted to 257,000 tons. The difference in cost of labour aud of pig iron in England and elsewhere renders successful competition on the part of the -American iron masters -imposKihltt, and thus to bolster up .one pa»ticularor:UK'h of trade auot'ier is ruined:/ and the whole commuuity robbed. - " -

. A c«!*P6«pond«nt of tbo " Manchester Gruarcliau" writes to that paper: — One of tlioso events has juar, occuveti to me wbieh like angel's \ isits , are fow and far" between." Some twenty years a^o I made a bad debt, took a composition, and had utterly forgotten all about it, when -yesterday my debtor introduced himself to me, recalled to my vecollection his name, &c, and handed me bank note* &r close upon £100 being the fuft-oal-auee due. Of course I was^ delighted, and should have bean -still more pleased had I been permitted to publish "Bucb an iustanc6i,of upright integrity: but this lha ju«fc man, considering that lie ha - l done bufc a simple act of d,uty, \vould UJt ttermii. •