THE MEETING AT THE DRILL-SHED.

Evening Star, Issue 4218, 2 September 1876, Page 3

THE MEETING AT THE DRILL-SHED.

To the Editor. Sir,—The correspondent “Veritas” (I understand that means truth), whose letter appeared in your columns on Thursday, should have written his name so that the English of it would have read Untruth. He states that “he attended the meeting for the purpose of comparing it with the reports.” I hope he will pardon me if I doubt this statement, and express my belief that he attended it for the purpose of belying his assumed signature, should circumstances seem to him to require it. He says he is “not in the least interested in making these statements. ’ His interests, and what the great majority of those who attended the meeting l)elieved to be their interests, are, no doubt, greatly dissimilar. Still he had an interest in the subject if not “in the place,” and I should imagine hia interest is a pecuniar y one. For the rest his statements ore simply mis-state-menfis frsm beginning to end. lam sure it would much gratify the public of Dunedin to know who this doubly-refined-gold gentleman is. If it is not beneath his dignity, or above his courage, would this paragon, who is no fallow of “ the baser sort,” condescend to give his name, in order that it may be greeted, as it deserves, by an admiring and appreciative people. If he should chance to feel any interest in one who does not assume to be “of the better class” to which, we are led to believe your correspondent belongs, you can give him my name on condition that you, with his consent, publish his name.

Sir, I hope you will pardon my bearing willing testimony to the truth and justice of your own comments respecting the manner in which the meeting conducted itself. If the “ men, youths, and baser sort ” of Dunedin, in “the entire absence of the better classes,” (vide “Veritas,” who, however, in his description of the composition of the meeting, excels himself in untruthfulness) can so conduct their business and themselves, it is an honor to them, and one may feel proud of being numbered with them. One word more. If the speaking was of the poorest, and the speakers were of no weight, does that not go to prove that the people had made up their minds before the meeting, and that it wanted neither great names nor the graces of oratory to commend the resolutions which were so heartily acopted.—l am, &c., Merely a Man. Dunedin, September 2.