REPLY TO " HOT SPRINGS."

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 June 1916, Page 2

REPLY TO " HOT SPRINGS."

TO THE EDITOR

SIR,—In your last Issue " Hot Springs " mentions he is alive. Apparently he is too simple to understand any but the plainest language. When I said •' Hot Springs " was dead and that Mr McLeod had risen from his ashes, what I meant your readers to understand was that your -letter over the signature of " Hot Springs" was really written by Mr McLeod. This gentleman will scarcely deny the correctness of my guess, for the evidences of Mr McLeod's authorship stand out clearly from every line of it and --now " Hot Springs" in his latest gives further evidence in the same direction, for who but that gentleman himself would class Mr McLeod as a " live " public man. A week' or so ago, Mr McLeod says he will answer no further letters of mine, then, a week later, he does reply under anonymityN o doubt those of your readers who have followed the correspondence between us will applaud Mr McLeQd's discretion. After the showing he has made silence is his best course. No doubt it is much safer to conduct correspondence under an assumed name than to use one's own, and perhaps discretion is really the better part of valour. —I am, etc.,

E. Thurlow Field.