THE MOKAU CASE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1188, 25 July 1911, Page 9

THE MOKAU CASE.

Sir.—With reference 'o Mr. C. A. Lottghnnn, who is battering vov.r political friend jusl now, and wili bo battering him considerably more later on, I have to say that your surmise that he is my brother is correct, and that 1 don't carp win knows it. I have to add that your attempt to drag the Legislative Council (in the person of a recentlyappointed member) into this marc's neU of your wild political chief, is, on the faco of it, absurd—l am, etc.. E. A. LOUGHNAN, M.L.C. July 21. HVe are at a loss to understand why the Hon. ]Ur. Loughna.i should be so vory omphatic in declaring his indifference as to who may know his relationship to air. C. A Loughnan, secretary of (lie Mokaw Lslate Company. We are pleased, however, to have his confirmation of our belief that he is the brother of that gentleman. So far as the "battering" of Mr. Massey is concerned, up to the present that has consisted of issuing a. wild and facetious challenge one dav that has no bearing on the points at issue, and withdrawing it the next to substitute a second challenge, ennallv comic and irrelevant. Perhaps Mr. ' Loughnan, M.L.C., meant "bantering,"