JUSTICE TO RIVERTON.
To the Editor. Sib,—Would you oblige the writer by inserting a reply to a letter which appeared in the • Guardian' of the 7th inst., as that Saper has refused to insert it. The «Guarian' is evidently under some particular restraint, and possibly I may have touched some of the main springs of its mechanism • "The Editor Otags Guardian. > "Sir,—! noticed in your issue of the 7th instant a letter signed 'Rivertonian/ promptly supplying you with information in answer to your inquiry of the sth instant. Now, it appears to me very odd thit the writer could reply so very quickly, and the impression left on my mind is that he is not a real Rivertonian ; but as there have been a few interlopers and impostors hailing from your 'braw toon' about Riverton since the commencement of the Western Light Railways, I conjecture that your correspondent must belong to one or other of these classes, for his effusions smack strongly of the navvy element, and possibly he is either a member or a menial of the ring. Consequently I treat his remarks with what they deserve—contempt. I am, &c, _ .. J. L. M'Donald." Dunedin, September 21.
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Evening Star, Issue 4237, 25 September 1876, Page 2
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197JUSTICE TO RIVERTON. Evening Star, Issue 4237, 25 September 1876, Page 2
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