WIDENING COLOMBO STREET.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 860, 27 March 1877, Page 2

WIDENING COLOMBO STREET.

To the Editor of the Globe.

Sir, —Will you kindly allow me space to avail myself of the earliest opportunity of replying to the remarks of Or Turner at the City Council meeting yesterday. That geritleman, as will be seen by the extract given below, has not stated facts. The explanation of the matter is very simple. Cr Turner used the word " halting," and by a printer's error, which passed undiscovered, this was printed as " touting." 1 told Cr Turner that he never used the word "touting," and further, that I could not understand how it could have got into the report, as I was certain that I never wrote it. As to the other portion of Cr Turner's remarks, he says that I placed in his mouth such words as "packed." The entire Press report on the subject is a 3 follows : —" Cr Turner said he hoped that means would be taken to prevent any touting at the meeting on the following evening, but that the ratepayers would dispassionately consider the matter. The drainage meeting, held some short time since, was to his mind a disgrace to Christchurch, and he trusted that the meeting on Tuesday would not be a similar exhibition." Now, sir, the word "packed" does not occur at all. I leave it to your readers to judge who has most right to talk of "honesty" and "manliness" after this. Yours, &c, THE PRESS REPORTER.