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Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 964, 27 August 1878, Page 2

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Sir,— At a meeting /of -*thc Cambridge Farmers’ Club, held on the 12th August, Mr John Runciman is reported t* have said that he had my sheep .continually dipped, but they were never olfean. Such is not the truth. I bought'the ‘sheep in Februny, 1877, found one sdabby in March; and dipped them twice the same month, and on the sth April; Mr Runciman gave me a clean ■ certificate. This year, owing to a neighbour allowing his sheep to st> ay, mine again got infected. With reference to Mr . Maclean’s remarks / about publishing in the Times, I may say that I have seen his own sheep treated for I scab, and ho was not at all forward in publishing the fact of iheir being scabby, —I am, &c., Wm. Quaitbouok. Fhhi’dhi. August 20. »S7B,

THE HUNT...ASSAULT CASE. Brß,_Will you allow roe space for a few remarks in your columns about the assault case reported in Inst 'Saturday's-pap»r. I dont know the plaintiff, therefore I have.no bias to him.butaii.y unprejudiced person that has read' the evidence may say that, after suuh a verdict, it »» i y be law, but uot justice. Anyone may take' the law into their .o.wn; •hiinds, rf ;they. fancy they are. insulted; ; M.r.. J. t*g Jjnck- : land ought to, be grateful! for ; such iravet?) and dtstihrftushed champions, m defending him against a yoking lad. As the magistrate hayedeserved } all he got, ; yet I fail ; to, see. wha;t rierht i they had to take the Jaw into ther own ; hands; It is hot so long, ago since aparty in Auckland tfai jnsiflted.. and horse-, whipped his'jMUte* M got a : month in Mount Eden fflf hid trduble, and a party down South Jej committed for. trial at present for taking the law intol his;? own hands. Tthiiik; if the sentence hadijeen reversed, and- the defendants had got a trip to the Hotel in Eyber Pass for a fortnight apiece, it would have been to their>benefi£—l am, &c., Justice. Cambridge, August 28,1878