MR MONCKTON AND MR BROWN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1076, 30 November 1911, Page 3

MR MONCKTON AND MR BROWN.

(To the Kditor.) Sir, —Mr C. B. xMorison has rushed into print over my recent slander action, with the same reason that Mr Monckton mentioned the matter from the platform. At Mr Moucktou’s Manakau meeting a prominent supporter of his asked if 1 have paid up. Mr Monckton replied, according to his official organ, that I had not paid—l had pleaded for time, and it had been granted. Six weeks before this I had sent a cheque on account of 8s 3d. lat first ollered to pay the whole of the expenses if Mr Monckton would wait until December for the damages. Mr Morison’s reply to this was to say that a writ had been drawn up, and would be served on the following Saturday it I did not pay ,£250 on account of the damages. I at once sent the cheque for ,£5lO 8s 3d, which amount was the total of Court expenses, and the to Mr Monckton. Before my und.rtaking to pay in December was accepted, Mr Monckton's banker made the usual bank inquiry of my bankers as to my ability to pay. This being satisfactory, the offer was accepted, and as in all business deals, when an arrangement is made and accepted to pay, the matter is closed. Air Moucktou’s reply to his questioner should have been that the matter between Mr Brown and himself was settled, which would have been perfectly true. But he preferred to make political capital by leaving the electors to conclude that I had paid nothing, and that no arrangement had been made. I never mentioned the matter from the platform until asked the question in Devin. Hence Mr Morisou's political appeal to what was, in the first place, a political action. — I am, etc.,

Byron Brown