Show A card editon in your our issue of the gab I 1 notice an all article si signed ed A which is so utterly false in se in its presumed facts and theories that although nt at first firsa I 1 did not propose to notice it as I 1 felt convinced that the tile venomous spirit exhibited throughout was the result of either bile or nervous headache sandwiched in with language so un ull worthy of the high standard of gentlemanly dignity the officers of the probate and county courts so much consider they maintain in the first place pincer I 1 did not think I 1 was meant as the facts alleged as such did not touch my former life but on subsequent inquiry found that I 1 was the only attorney before the county court that day the facts stated in the pilot article referred to were not altogether 9 dyen by mei stated to a gentleman of that office that tho the count county y court app appeared eared to be holding li a session session with closed not locked doors as ongoing on going there about 11 my name was taken in by an usher and word was sent out to me that the county court was then engaged on some road matters and could not attend to me till 2 and that the gentlemanly clerk added 1 I do not suppose you want t to 0 stay out here till 12 as it is is hardly probable the court would hear you then no stricture or criticism was made or intended on the court ex eat that perhaps our thin skinned friend A may conclude that the servants ts of the people have not an any right Z to be criticized by the people 0 or r any of them and it is almost impossible to refrain from a smile at the dash of royalty orsome of some olour of our official servants in the dignity which they assume in some small matters now for a few words in regard to the libelous letter ofa anever was in in an any y part of the australian colonies or waters or agvan at van die dic mans land botany bay or other point in those regions that is libel no 1 next libel no 2 1 I am nin not a ll 11 self styled lawyer but was legally admitted to practice when most of the young officers of the probate and county courts were in lonc ion clothes or else were not born nest next libel no 3 1 I never was a clerk to a barrister but I 1 did in proper form of law regularly enter cuter a solicitors office for study and for purpose of admission long before awas born if A is the I 1 believe him to be the other facts he lie presumes to state are equally far removed from the truth and as for his innuendos and malicious assertions pitying the boys i ignorance of social amenities of of c civilized i grance zed life and gentlemanly tle manly conduct and recognizing these film facts I 1 do not intend to smirch myself with the filth A f has thrown at roe me I 1 leave him thus far my associations lons with the officers of the courts have been always pleasant and uniformly gentlemanly tle but as they are public servants ants and not rulers and governors their official acts may be freely criticized and commented on b by y any jp person erson without ua causim causing them to view the matter matte personally I 1 y or to indulge in the storm of billingsgate rhetoric hurricane of wrath hand and ungentlemanly invective invective hurled on me in in the communication of adf A of th eth I 1 can only therefore hope that in future my friend A will learn to so combine the words of the english language as to make his communications for the public eye class cal 1 grammatical truthful and gentlemanly yours ac H W 0 BAna AUY june Juno |