The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1885. MR FIELD'S LETTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1500, 6 November 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1885. MR FIELD'S LETTER.

r'V : • j ; /From a summary of Mr H. G. iFiKLDV letter to Dr Hector on the Pohangina, which appears m the ■Port* and which is fuller m detail than that telegraphed by the United Press Association, we notice. r th at son^e of his statements are more un|fajr and defamatory? than at first we *wlreMed & sujppote. Thfre Is on>r sentence m particular which did not } app^in|the |elegraphejd to the newspapers and which is exceptionally unj ustifiable. Speaking, of ttie portions of stone tested by various^ private persons, and by. seyerai jewellers m Wellington anidr Wanganui, <Mr Field makes tti| following untruthful and unwarrantable insinuation :— v At all events the article submitted to them is likely to be of far better quality than the general run of the stone lit 6eemß,fery. curious; thatsOn]y |a veiy few, persons— and those', too, interested m doing so-— seem able lo find precious metals m the quartz!" ; BjoW,' ' •we r consider^ ; this, simp'lyi an abdominally gross imputation. \Ve know for an absolute fact that there was no picking or choosing the stone which was tested. It was taken haphazard. Indeed, there was no choice, for all was exactly alike m appearance. .Those.. J?hg..founJ !^cip^s metals, were, at the tinietHetegjts were made, m no way interested m doing so^rancl whatere,r interest they subsequlritly^saught, ioiacquire wits on account of the results of the tdst )ihey had niade".t/.iWe qojpsjger I^fir, JRi^i.D's remarks, nothing short of a gratuitous insult 1 io 1 tKbse persons who .went to the trouble of raakijig the test., ltisequivalenttqsayingjthey were conspmng.to get up> skiridle. We^hall M f urp/ised ,f M r Fiis^r* does not hear further from 'tlie ben- , tliemen wbose ( character he t has so (jleliberately, aspersed. ; 'j. are. |tHprougjily jßiatjsfied 5 .t^ ajr^h l e ; Wsts nia^e tKe jeweljersi were^absoluteMin^fifH a aPt^ t not a shadow of suspicion rests on any of them: or on those whoto6k' u iHe stoii^'iii 'be tested for their own private informa.

tion. We can only sincerely (tepre--*cate the action of Mr Pi eld: hi this matfer, as being most unwarrantably ■: Whatever opinion he may have held, 'privately;, there was nothing to jiisr, iii/h isyl etter to Dr \ H kctoh making any insinuations of W& honesty on the part of those who have done their best to settle the question as to; the existence- or other--1 of valuable-mmeirars -m ■Pohari--gina. Mr Field has gone out of THrwarro-He^^ihl»l!rs»ff^l»n-^ .of unblemished reputation, and to make out that they were all.conspiring together to defraud the public. We Mfpl envy -Mr r Mltihv, \ the notoViety'he has ilolleirned f^'hW-