A.E,L's FINAL LETTER.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 356, 3 April 1908, Page 2

A.E,L's FINAL LETTER.

(to THE EDITOR.) Sib,— Children when playing with tin soldierw soruutiinealgiTe one of the pieces aname eay "Napoleon Bonaparte,” stick it on end roll a marble at it, bowl it over and ahou aloud chat a warrior has fallen. So M (3 regg sets up a dummy, attributes to it acta that are not mine, makes it otter words I have net said, and'seutimente L have repudiate! “shoots his miuth" at hisdummy, and calk aloud to the public to admire the way he has bowled over “Mr Langley” In my letters I have told Mr G. egg what my statements were and in what respect they differed from Mr Robinson's—that they we*e not specific, bat based on my knowledge of a number of transactions in this District. I would also call attention t > the fact that 1 have carefully refrained from being person al or insalting. Mr Gregg evidently refuses to accept my version, and be and his frirnds have doue their utmost in the matter of misrepresentation and personal abase. If I deal with Mr G. differently on this occasion he has himself to thank for it. First I will take his questions : No I.—l did not value Kiritehere land. No 2.—' know some Kiritehere Uocks but not all; I have been from eni to end of Kiritehere six times in a year. No 3 —Nowhere have I said that througq’ my ageoeyjany Kiriteheie Itnd has been sold —I am waiting for theGovernmeno to complete tho roads and so put more value on the laud. No 4. Now for a plain answer to what Mr G. calls a plain question, that aft er ail is not a plain question. Mr Greyg a’ks, "Did you not make those statements for tbe expreus purpose of trying to discredit my statement in the intjretit of *your part’oular friend, Mr Bard ?” Mv plain reply, Yes ! absolutely yes! I had that parp.se in view Naw let the sky fall. What is not p'a : n about Mr Gregg's question is. What statement the hypothetical or the real ■' But behind all this tbe impelling fore-* that has moved mo throughout this affair is not only what I consider the unfair attack on Mr Bard but Mr Gregg’s disgraceful admission after the attack, that he had slung his mud at Mr Burd to gain certain ends in the matter of Kiritehere roads, making a public boast. ...... Mr Gregg makes elephantine fun that I gave a bit of autobiography, bat immediately follows my load and using my word justification gives considerable < f his own. He tells us among other things he has spent 25 years in the bush and though never before an agitator be now intends to became one. I congratulate him on finding a role that will suit him admirably. A detractory spirit like Mr Gregg’s will find plenty of matter. .... One word mere on Mr G/s simile of tne bex ts that do not fit: would it not be more correct to say that Mr Gregg is likely to fall out with any boots other than patent leather with spats, to be handed him by Mr Burd —nicely cleaned. —Yours, etc., A. E. LANGLEY.

[This correspocdeuce has resolved into a personal matter and such being the case must be closed. Oar columns are always open for the discussion of public matters, but we do not care to lend them for " inkslinging,” as is now being indulged in. Some of the remarks are unkind and uncalled for, but as it is the last of the correspondence we have let some of these go u ache Ilenged.—E o. ]