MR MILNE’S LECTURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1085, 16 March 1883, Page 3

MR MILNE’S LECTURE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—Your correspondent was an attentive listener from the commencement to the termination of Mr Milne’s lecture on the 23th ultimo, and, therefore, assures Mr Lothian that your paragraph was not totally at variance with his address ; and the remarks represented were not erroneously sated. Mr Milne's first allusion to this small point—as Mr Lothian terms it—was that company’s were in formation to buy the land, and the n dives of these Islands were very' much persecuted ; that the French S' Idiers and Priests kill them. As to Mr Milne’s story being unvarnished, I have my doubts ; hut one thing lam certain of, his words were not ; they were plain and audible in this particular point, more so than what they were previously. Mr Lothian’s imagination must have led him to believe that the lecturer’s remarks were altogether alluded to on a totally different light, for certain paragraphs appear in his let'er that were never mentioned by Mr Milne during his address on that evening. To be the means of creating a religious animosity or prejudicing the work of the missionaries, was the remotest idea of your correspondent at the time ; but 1 was forcibly impressed then, and still maintain it, that his remarks were out of place. Being a public lecture, and members of different denominations atte .ding it, on that reason | no sect should be incidentally alluded to. It is my intention to withdraw from I further discussion on this subject, for I am j of the opinion no good will ha derived from it. In justice to myself 1 was compelled to . replv to Mr Lothian’s letter to vindicate my cause in urging on you to point those allusions referred to by Mr Milne, and to refute the accusation made by Mr Lothian, j —I am, etc,, One of the Audience. I Clyde, March 14, 18S3. [lt is with great reluctance wc insert above, but in fairness to our oorrespon- i dent we do so, hoping, however, that this : will be the last of it —Hd.D.T.]