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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 14 November 1861, Page 3

To the 7'JdHor of lice JlauTes Taj/ Times. Sin, —If your correspondent “ An Elector’ had favored us with his name, I should have felt more at my ease in noticing- his posing questions. "Who knows hut that he may he a second living- edition of, or supplement to, those philosophers of ancient days Plato or Aristotle I Or, peradventure, merely plain, stupid Jack Smith or Jim Jones ? What's in a name ? Not much ! no doubt, or your anonymous correspondent would have signed Ins. “ Jloni soil qui mal y q/c/ise'’ should he his motto, anything- to the contrary notwithstanding. It is, however, needless for me to say more in reply to his inquiries as touching the matter of “ Poor Poh,"’ as that gentleman is with such affecting sympathy called hy your correspondent,'than that he was removed from his location because it was deemed necessary, and that I am not aware of any particular hardship having been thereby inflicted upon that individual. My duty as a public servant has, I believe been pretty generally discharged to the satisfaction of those whom it most intimately concerns, and I am, therefore, by no means inclined to give an account of my conduct under that heading to any one or more “ Electors.’'’

I may as well, with your permission, take this opportunity of informing “ my friends and the public generally,” that I have resigned the onerous appointment given me by his excellency the late Governor, to lay informations under the Native Land Purchase Ordinance, Session 7, No. 10, and that I did so because I was not at liberty to act upon my own judgement in the case of the powers

conferred upon me. If I had been free to act up to the dictates of my own reason, the vexita questio of that Ordinance would longago have been set at rest, fur 1 should have enforced its provisions without the slightest respect of persons, For a’ that an’ a’ that, Their dignities an’ a’ that. The pith o’ sense an’ pride o’ worth Are higher ranks than a’ that. For a’ that, an’ a’ that, A man’s a man for a’ that, And I am, Ac.,

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