MR SUTTON IN REPLY TO MR WEBER.
fTo the Emtob of the Daily Telegeaph.] Sib, —On reading Mr Charles Weber's letter in your Saturday's issue, I was forcibly reminded of an old nursery rhyme that runs thus:— For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. I should advise Mr Weber, when he next feels compelled to write about matters that do not concern him, that it would be as well to be truthful. The evidence he says I gave before the Native Lands Commission in 1873 is not in accordance with evidence as reported. I do not see this clause :—" Mr Sutton parted with the whole block as be bought it at a profit of £500, reserving no portion for himself." I have every reason to believe that the ultimate settlement of the position was delayed by the interference of the people who had no more to do with it than Mr Weber had. Mr Weber knows nothing of the matter; was not connected in the slightest way with it, and I have no doubt some of your readers will agree with me that his letter, to say the least, was in excessively bad taste.—l am, &c,
F. Sotton. Wellington, August 24, 1881.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3168, 24 August 1881, Page 2
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