MR. MONCKTON AND MR. BROWN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 11

MR. MONCKTON AND MR. BROWN.

Sir, —"NTr. C.'. U. Alorison has rushed inf-o print over my recent slamh'r fiction, with tlm same reason.that Air. Alonckton mentioned the matter from t.lic i>la.tt'urm. At Air. Alonckton's Alanakau meeting a prominent supporter of asked jf 1 have iiaid up. .Mr. Alonckton replied, accorilintr to his official organ, that I had not: paid—l had pleaded for limn, and jt had been frranlf-d. Six ivroks before this I had fent a cheque on account of .Colli B*. .'lll. I ,\t lirjl offered to pay the whole of the expenses if Air. Jlonckton tvould wait until December for the damages. All'. Aforison's reply to (his wa/ to say that a writ had been" drawn up, and would he served on the following Saturday if I did not pay .£250 on account of the damages. 1 at onco tent the cheque for .£3lO &. .'id., which amount was the t'jtal of Court expenses., ayd the JteKiO to Afr. Alonckton. ifeloro my undertaking to .pay- in:.December, was. accepted, Air. Alonckton's banker made the usual bank, inquiry of. my bankers as to my ability I 'J pay. This being satisfactory, the offer was accepted, and as in atl business deals, when «u arrangement is made mid accepted to pay, the matter is closed. Afr. Alonckton's reply to his questioner should Imvo been that the matter between Afr. Brown and himself was settled, : which would have, been perfectly true. Biit he preferred to malio political capital- bv leaving the doctors to concludo that I had ' paid nothing, and that no arrangenicj)f; lui(| been; innde. 1 never mentioned the matter trom tho platform until asked , lmyi»c>hon in Levin. Hence Mr.-Mori--5° n / S appeal to.what was, in the j n-rst placo* a political. action.—l .aio, etc., J BTROX BROWN.