THE 'BRUCE HERALD' AND MR TURNBULL.

Evening Star, Issue 3799, 28 April 1875, Page 3

THE 'BRUCE HERALD' AND MR TURNBULL.

To the Editor.

Slß,—The present editor of the * Bruce Herald ’ having denied me the publication of a letter of explanation, with the apology, in the case Turnbull v. Mackay and Gillies, t have to crave your indulgence to explain that I only signed that apology as part of the award of certain arbitrators to whom the case was submitted. I still maintain that the meaning at tached to a certain sentence by Mr Turnbull was a strained and unnatuial one, and it is worthy to note that the preamble of the apology states, “ Understanding from you (Mr TurnbullHhatyou consider, &0.,” not that the writer, publisher, or even arbitrators took such a moaning out of it. therefore the apology was required. I leave the public to judgeof the logical deduction. Mr Turnbull is so well known as being careful of the good name of other people, •o doubt deemed it imperative or necessary to protect his own name from what an evil-minded md highly imaginative person, or one possessed of a guilty conscience, •> ight imply from a passing reference to certain rumors, the nature >f which was not given currency to, nor even hinted at either being good or bad in their character. The rumors might have been of the most creditable, honoiable, and patriotic a character. Having published the apology, I have to ask you to publish this explanation. To every word in the article, excepting in so far as it might be construed as tending to impute “corrupt conduct for private gain,” I still strictly adhere to.—l am, &c.,

John L. Gillies. Dunedin, \piil 28.