KAWAFAU GORGE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 265, 27 October 1874, Page 5

KAWAFAU GORGE.

(pxom our ovnx correspondent.)

. October 26, 1871 The Cromwell correspondent of the Dun* stan Times takes occasion to make some exaggerated and uncalled-for remarks with reference to a fracas which is said to have occured here about a fortnight ago. Perhaps it will be thought that an occurrence of this kind is best not stirred-up ; but as it is stated that " a number of men were present, who encouraged the sanguinary battle," I think it will not detract from the high tone and respectability of your paper to make a few re marks.

I am sorry to have to admit that it is my belief a dispute did occur between two wo* men, which was not settled without recourse to the weapons which Nature furnishes. But it cjrtainly was not made a " field -fight on the flat," as, after considerable enquiry, I have been unable to discover the name of a single witness to it. We are only a small community (not more than twenty men), most of whom value their reputation for a family's sake as well as for their own ; and each one feels as if he himself were included among the number who are said to have encouraged the affair referred to. Without wishing by any means to screen offenders against public morality, I confess I am unable to discover what good end is sought to be attained by making a sensational report about such a distressing circumstance as the one I am now alluding to. ,

[We have much pleasure in publishing the above lines from " Our Own" at the Gorge. A. large number of -people in the district will be pleased to believe that there were no men mean and unmanly enough to stand by and witness such a disgraceful affair.—Ed. C7.il.J