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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 807, 25 July 1870, Page 2

A meeting was recently got up in Dunedin by a Mr Tolmie to consider the financial proposals of the Government, which, after some discussion, were unanimously condemned, —a result which does not seem to have been desired by the convener. A correspondent of the Daily Times asks : •' Will Mr Tolmie deny that he received a telegram from Wellington to the following effect:—' Get up agitation in favor of financial resolutions,' " and adds, "If he did receive it, may we not account for the similar meetings held all over the Colony ? " Since our outside pages were worked off wehave received later files of Wellington papers, and in the Evening Post of the 19 th inst. we find the following reply to the strictures of the editor which appear to-day in our last page:— "To the Editor of the Evening Post. Sir, —Allow me to assure you that the letter I wrote you yesterday, correcting errors in a paragraph in the Evening Post of Saturday, was not written " by com« mand "; that I consulted no one before I wrote it, and that it was writ* ten entirely mero motu meo. Don't you think it is rather a mean way of getting out of a bad position, and excusing an error, to throw the blame on " ramifications ? " I do.—l am, Ac, G. C. N. Barron." The editor, in a lengthy note, replies that he fails to see the " meanness" of his remarks, and contends that his former deductions were fair and logical.