EDGAR V. MONTROSE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1400, 23 June 1881, Page 3

EDGAR Y. MONTROSE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin,-- 1 have just learned that at a reheating of this case on Friday, 17th msf, , defendant paid into Court a sum equal to 30s per week for the time plaintiff had been employed by him, with costs of first hearing, and on that basis, | assume, the case has been settled. In other words, tho plaintiff, has been starved into capitulation — a starvation process, aggravated by the fact that the stipendiary magistrate of the district lent himself a^nd his position as a paity to the procedure. lam prepared to know, you will esteem this strong language; but Mir extenuation I v have to aak you to reflect for a moment upon the facts of 'the case. ( Plaintiff a mere' lad, wholly dependent upon his earnings, summoned defendant for recovery of a month's wages— the case being called for 'the first time twelve or 'fourteen jveeks < ago. > He clainled precisely Houble' the amount' he lids now, to all appearance been glad to accept of* his claim, *in the "estijhaitiqn'Ojf every disinterestec) Jpeyson ( wjio knew axjgh'j; ab,6u,f tlie; ; der^d', # being! foirand reaWabJe. *vjfell, Sir^^s X,,liHve; '^aid; f tlieVcasd, camS^on- ' t-welyk o\*fbur&eii wefek^agbf aifd without 5

wbat way evidence which it -was pretended was required from ( a distance, and which would involve considerable delay, could have any beiring on the , dispute, he is allowed to hang it up all this time. That is not all. In opposition to these vexatious „and constantly recurring adjournments, the magistrate was told most distinctly that the parties named as witnesses, required from a distance, could throw no light or give information on the point, and yet, without attempting to enquire into the truth of these allegations, or in any other way trouble himselt as to the real facts of the question at issue, he goes on granting adjournment alter adjournment, until, as shown above, piaintiff is litei ally starved into the acceptance of whatever defendant may choose to offer. The fact that defendant has never dared to adduce the evidence he professed to ask for, shows conclusively "that these allegations were well founded, and that this machinery of the law has simply been operated upon and twisted about to protract, if not to defeat the ends of justice. I ventuie to think plaintiff &poke well when he advised the working- classes of Waikato to bear the ills they had, rather than fly to the R.M, Court for redress. — I am, &c, Eo. Carrick. Wellington, June 18th, 1881.