MR J. L. GILLIES AND THE EDITOR BRUCE HERALD.

Evening Star, Issue 3802, 1 May 1875, Page 3

MR J. L. GILLIES AND THE EDITOR BRUCE HERALD.

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against them, and, in terms of the decision, an apology (of a most curious nature, I admit) had to appear twice in the ‘ Bruce Herald.’ Along with the copy of the apology, I received a long railing and querulous letter (not identical with that published by you) from Mr Gillies, which he wished inserted side by side with it. As in the case of the ‘ Bruce Herald,’ of whese reputation I am quite as chary as Mr Gillies is of his, X decided not to insert a word rc the apology, Mr Turnbull, the case, or the original article until the terms of the award were fully satisfied, so I declined inserting Mr Gillies a letter until the same period. IN ay. more, I wrote a private letter to Mr Gillies giving him my private opinion on the whole affair, advising him that he and his position would not gain by exhibiting a desire at once to rail at the .decision of a tribunal which he ap §°i» l ? te . con i oinfcl y with Messrs Turnbull and Mackay, and promising him, as I promise 11 l’ a P er I have the honor to edit full justice when the proper time comes and the award of the tribunal is fulfilled. Mr (rillxes having written, however, as he has done to you must now bow-to the w-ell-known professional rule which will undoubtedly exclude his letter from the columns of the ‘Bruce Herald.’ I have no more to say than this: that it appears to me that M~ Gillies, by his present course, is •nit giving evidence of that same rashness of temperament and want of proper reason which made his own editorial career result in the acrian Turnbull v. Gillies and Mackay, and which in the case Dawson v. Mackay let an adveitisement appear in the ‘Bruce Herald’ that no one with any pretensions to a know edge of journalism would have permitted to be inserted.—l am, &c„ The Editor ‘ Bruce Herald.’ Mayl,