DRUNKEVNESS. Mirgarefc Condron was fined ss. and costs, with tlio alternative of undergoing twenty-four houri' irupriaon meut with hard labour.
POLICE COURT. — Friday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M. ]

To the Editor of the Daily Southmi Crots. Sir, — Allow mo through the medium of your columns to contradiot a report now very public, namely, that I accused Messrs. t Mason and Cousens of desecrating Msoti graves, &c, at PapaUura. I am, sir, the wiitor of the article complaining of tho deieoration ; but that I accused theie two mon, I t beg moat distinctly to deny. In my ovidenco, before tho couit of inquiry, I did not once nieutiou their namoi. Why they liavo been punished,' lamat a lots to underittaud. I have waited day after day expecting Matnn and Couieni to be tiied (for who could have supposed that they would be kept five weeks, mid than released without a chance of clearing their characters ') as I know they could prove their innocence. I would not again have brought this miliject before the public, were it not in justice to these two men, whom I believe to be in capable of deeds like those they have sufloied for. — I iuu, &c, Edward Smith. Auckland, Oct. 23.
ALLEGED DESECRATION OF MAORI GRAVES.
