The Timaru Sensation

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 72, 18 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Timaru Sensation

The following is the letter referred to in Mrs Oi 1 u-'s evide ice Just week, in which that lady was forbidden visiting Mr Hall's house : — " Mrs Ostler, Tiraaru. Madam — To prevent the possibility of misunderstanding, or the chance of blame resting on the wrong shoulders,, I beg to say that it was by my desire that Mrs Newton suggested to you that your visits to Woodlands should be less frequent than formerly. I was aware that you never were f riendh -disposed to me, and that you had at different times, withont any provocation or right, not hesitated to go out of your way to say unpleasant things at me. Seeing this, it was impossible I could regard your intimacy with my wife with any feelings 0/ pleasure, and I considered it was desirable it should not be continued as closely as formerly. To show how thoroughly right I was, I find that, on yjEnir short visit ye«terd*y, you made full use of your opportunity to make as much mischief as possible between me and nay wife. I learn that you have tried to sow discord in my house ; that you said you knew a thing or two about me, and that I was afraid of your earning to my house. This is bad enough, to upset ray domestic arrangements behind my back; but my wife tell* me you a so went out of your way, and to a comparative strau^er, -accused my father of having cheated the late Mr Ostler out of his run. That is the expression I was toid you used. The statement about myself I an» iudifferent to, but when the good name of my father is ilms jaaaliciously and slanderously impugned, I am »ot disposed to allow the statement to pass, espeeiilly when made by a visitor of my iiousehoUL I must therefore,, beg you to discontinue your visits in future Altogether. — Youjr obedient .servant, Thos. B-WWv"