MR ROBERTS’S MEETING.

Evening Star, Issue 3764, 17 March 1875, Page 2

MR ROBERTS’S MEETING.

To the Editor . Sir, —I would like to ask the nine authors of the letter that appeared in your issue of Thursday in what way a particular desire was manifested by the residents of Green Island, who were at the meeting, to exclude all others from participating in it ? Was there an armed mob at the door to keep them out, or how ? I would also ask them how long a meeting is to sit in silence to allow would-be interrogators to concoct their questions? Also, whether, when a chairman states a resolution to a meeting, and asks if there is any amendment to be proposed, he is not putting the resolution to the meeting ? And again, \yhen having waited to receive amendments and none are proposed, he again states the resolution to the meeting and asks if it is carried, and no opposition being offered he declares it carried, has he not put it to the meeting T Perhaps the worthy authors of the letter in question will consent to inform us how they would put a resolution to a meeting. Mr Andrew, though having had a little experience in such matters, will not, I believe be averse to leam from such competent teachers. But that the statements contained in the letter of these gentlemen as regards the manner in which the meeting was conducted are utterly erroneous and unfounded, is proved by a reference to the report of the meeting contained in yom own columns; as also in the morning papers. I appeal also with confidence to the gentlemen of the Press who were present as to whether any unfairness was shown, or anv obstruction put in the way of anvone asking what questions they might think proper. Itis to be hoped, for the credit of the nme gentlemen who are the authors of the letter that when they next attend a public have a grievance—as it would appear thev V n e ~ t i > v, Ve,ltl h t ?' they wiU h »ve P the manl£ to P® 6 Up and Btate and not y P™? a tad* assent to what “,,, one > and then go away and whine out in the columns of the Press crocodile congratulations to the public man they dislike-whilTby a

twenty-four hours’ notice they get up a hole-and-corner meeting to subserve their own private views or those of other wire-pullers.—l am, &c., Thomas Kino. Green Island, March 12.