MABSHALL. To the Editor of the Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume 492, Issue VIII, 15 July 1875, Page 2

MABSHALL. To the Editor of the Waikato Times.

Siß,—ln jour last issue I read a letter on the abore matter, signed " Wm. Macgregor Hay," and, as my name i» mentioned, I wish to make a few remarks. Any statement that I may have made duri' q the progress of the case, wa» lroui instructions receive i froni uijr client, and not from any personal* BhowfedgeVj tfcfc milter beyond that. I may cUte thafr theVHoJuaiP ifced w*B forced from ma by the conduct of'tue c<mnB#l fl|r&ba»plaintiff (Mr Whituker). He, finding himself beaten inVevery quarter, and defeated oa every point, like a drowning man, clutching at a >traw applied that no costs should be allowed, after the arrangemen had been made the previous court day, that the osts of the first day »kould abide the result of the case, (thi& hid vyo-rtjhipujmpoVtod m^iu^ During this application be Btate^lhOT^e^Vere^iehi^gN^rdeiTes under a technical objt'otiSn. apdnot onVliewme^a of the case. Upon this statement* bein£-«wde, I, OfN>eu*tf of Mr Marshall, stated that whic&he (M.f M.) gJre me aa the reason for not paying the bill of oosts. 1 had,preTiouelj to this, carefully abstained fi om alluding to the matter. I may state that it was acting under advice that the defendant agreed to par the £10. If my meraury does not fail me, that which th& defendant siatrd upon oath, was that he had not receded a bill of coats for £3 16s 4i " for mire than a month" after the caw was tried, and Section 139 of the Resident Magis • trate's Court Act, 1867 states that it shall be rendered within 41 seven dayg" from the day of trial. I have no doubt but that Mr Marshall will reply to the letter written t>y Mr Hay, wiien he sees it, but iinug as he doos at Mangspiko, it uiuy be some tim«, t * - \ All that is "rt^uirbH is tfi^fc whic^is contained in your mottO, TIZ :— \" • V; n s " Equal an^l exact jusfcW) to *U men, Of Whatever state or mrsuasion, Religious, or political . j> Nk Wliile upon this subject I innj sa^ that I am gla^ tov»t the linn and mibiat-a<»d stand which your paper is tak isfjf" and the vustimprorement in fie reports of the caspg trfed in tlio R.-SKloni Matiistrate's Court lately, for although we have not a '• Tichborne" a " Beecher and Tilton,"oreven a •' liiem llarp" case, still I venture to a«sert that the cases which aie tried here are more fully discussed and ventilated by the inhabitants of Waikato (aud elsewhere), than those eusea »hioh I liaveiefem><i to, tx?ciuse in the Wnikato the population is limi'ed and the one has a personal knowledge 01, and aequamtanctj with, the other.— lara, *c, tj. „ _ CHAELES E. MADDES-