MISS MARGARET HOUSTON

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1525, 5 April 1887, Page 3

MISS MARGARET HOUSTON

Dr Keyworth writes bs follows to the Nelson " Mail " : — " My attention has been called to a paragraph to the effect that * Mar. aret Houston is going to reside with one of the !N olson doctors. ' f* b lam credibly aßsured that my name is currently aesociatea with the statement I bog to be allowed to give it an-abßoluto and unqualified contradiction so far as rola'os to xnyseif. No one who htiß any personal acquaintance with mo would be likely to credit, so preposterous and absurd nn announcement : but there are many others to whom I am less known whom it may be desirable to correct. Will you permit me then to say that my knowledge of MargaTot Houston's family, which is thoroughly respectable, is of many years' standing and I have known her from her birth, throughout her business life, and during her residence m Wellington up to. the tune of her unfortunate removal to Timaru. Her character and behavior baco been- - blameless Common humanity, therefore, as well as my long friendship with her parents, impelled mo to devote time and money and to encounter disagreeable publicity to assist her when lying under the accusation of a horrible crime, of whick I then and still believed h6t to. be innocent ; but tny association with her terminated with the hour of her acquittal; Whilst, therefore, I have done What I could on her bohalf, I by no means •nderse her subsequent conduct. She is the last person whom 1 should be likely to take into my house, and I have, indeed, •trongly advised her friends to recall her to England."