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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 363, 12 May 1868, Page 3

(To the Editor of the Grey River Argus.) Sir — Might 1 again trespass on you to publish this letter as a reply to the one published in your issue of the 30th ult., jsigned " John Black," giving me unlimited credit for baseness, falsehood, &c, &c, because I had the audacity to make known through the medium of your paper f the necessity of a boat being put on 'this crossing. I do not believe the effusion I refer to was written by the party whose signature it bore, but, admitting it to be his, I say again it is a positive fact, that when the attention of Madam was called to the cooeying on the 19th, not at eleven o'clock as conveniently stated by Mr Black, but between six and seven, the mildest part of her answer was—' ' Let the . . stop there till they rot," as can be proved by Mr Anderson, storekeeper, Mr George Barman, myself, and others. The denial of this is supposed to emanate from Mr Black, but, as I have bean put in possession of the name of the real author, it pounds to my ears very like "Ask my brother if I'm a rogue " Again, he says, concerning the swag, that it was not picked up in mid-stream. This I admit to be the only truthful line in the entire letter, as it might have been a few yards on either side. This can be proved by Jim MTtendry, the butcher, and Mr Bannon, who picked it up. Since Mr Black has been the recipient of the grant there has been no flood in the Gray in which a passenger boat could not work with safety. The evidence of twenty signatures can be procured to certify this, as well as from Mr Goff, at the Ahaura, who was ferrying passengers on the same evening from Moonlight. While I am writing this there is a row going on at the ferryman's hotel between , him and his wife, the like of which it is - .impossible for my pen to poartray. But .there is a man on the opposite side of the Oliver, who baa been cooeying for the last two hours ; he has now his fire alight probably with the intention of remaining out all night in the frost. It is n» use trying to mention the circumstance to either of the combatants, as their chief desire at present seems to be who can •mash most, at the same time smashing each other with the fragments of the smashed. I do not write this letter in my own, or in the interest of any person ; my sole object is to caution the Government against fostering a nuisance in this district ; and the truth of every line of this letter shall be endorsed, if ntoessary, by every person here. I am, &c., A Resident at the Junction.