Walnuts 4&d to sd. Batter boxes — 561 b batter boxes with vege table parchment lining 18s per dozen net on tracks here. Viokery's Egg Preservative 22 1 per case ; payment mast accompany order.
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Thubsdat. Mr John Thompson, at his yards — Usual stock sale Mr J. C Aebuckle, at Ma rooms— Miscellaneous

and Mr Robert Cotton were present during the interview and on the edi tor of this paper meeting Mr Bennet an boar or bo afterwards he called Mr Bennet's attention to the extraordi nary nature of the statement made by Mr Duncan with reference to the Supreme Court Judges and Mr Ben net at once agreed that it was an as tounding statement. On Monday last we called Mr Cotton's attention to the denials of the Minister of Lands on this matter and that gentle man at once replied that the Minister had made the statements attributed to him by the Tuapeka Times and added that there could be no possible mis take about it. It is hardly necessary for us to say anything more on the matter. We have, as was incumbent on us, furnished independent and re* liable testimony in support of the statements made by us. We have offered proof for our statements all along the line. The Minister of Lands has nothing to offer beyond a Beries of wholesale denials which, on other testimony than our own, we have shown to be unworthy of belief.
