THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1241, 22 July 1872, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1872.

Mr. E. J. O'Conor has addressed to the Inangahua Herald a letter which, except for a reference made to this journal, we Bhould not have thought it necessary to notice. Whatever may have been the rights or wrongs of the case between him and the Provincial Council of Nelson, his conduct and utterances at Weatport have demonstrated him to be unworthy of the notice of any newspaper outside of his own district, and the journals there, we presume, are perfectly capable of doing all that ia necessary in the interests of public morality. MrO'Conor, in his letter to the Herald, repeats the old story that he is the embodiment of innocencegravely injured by "personal enemies," "political opponents," a "most unprincipled prostrated Pres9," and "distorted, suppressed, and misrepresented facts." Nay,' more ; he desires the inquiry which he is tojobtnin, for the purpose of showing that j he has been "the victim of a murderous and cowardly conspiracy." He adds to a pretty libellous assertion aboiit alleged libels by the Pres3, that "he regrets to find that the Grey River Argus has, in his case, taken a much less worthy stand than it generally occupies," and this "he attributes to the fact that Mr Alexander Reid is upon our Btaff." What Mr O'Conor may mean by "less worthy stand," we are at a loss to interpret, but we must confess that, in one sense, we cannot but coincide with him that we have not taken a worthy

"stand in regard to " his case." Rarely, and in rather meagre and mild manner, has reference been made to him, and that circumstance is, as he says, attributable to the fact that our staff does include a gentleman who is at present resting under the grave and untried charge of being " a murderous and cowardly conspirator." When that grave charge is disposed of, we shall be perfectly willing to take a more worthy* stand towards Mr O'Conor, or, as the case may be, towards the conspiring, cowardly, murderer whom we may have the misfortune to find " upon our staff." '