MR. VOGEL’S MEETING.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2408, 20 December 1870, Page 3

MR. VOGEL’S MEETING.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir—l enclose to you copy of a letter which has been sent to the Ofwio Dull]] Timer, hut which has not been inserted in that paper ; and I shall be obliged if you will give it publicity. I may add, that I am forwarding a copy of the letter to the directors of the Otago JDnih/ Tinier and iVitnerr (to. Limited, with a request that they will investigate the circumstances concerning the report which appeared in the Timer. I have, itc., Julius V.gel, Dunedin, December 20. (Copy.) To the Editor of the Otago Dnihj Timer. Sir— The comments in to day’s Timer, upon what passed at the meeting which I addressed on Tuesday evening last, give me the right to tell you that the report which you published of my speech on that occasion was cxceedidgly inaccurate. I should not have complained, perhaps, of mere inaccuracies, because I know that the reporters had to take notes under very great difficulties ; but the portion of the report which appeared in the Timer of Wednesday was so extremely inaccurate and incomplete—so directly calculated to create a false impression—that I cannot believe it was printed as it was handed in by the reporters. I challenge you to declare to your readers whether such was the case ; and I ask you to inform them whether you think you had any right to comment upon my remarks respecting the Dent;/ Timer—ns you have done in your paper of to-day—when you had not the fairness or the courage to include those remarks in the pretended report of my speech. I enclose a correct report of what I said at the meeting, and I request that you will publish it in the Timer. 1 have, &c., (Signed) Julius Vogel. Dunedin, December 17. . . i .... ' i