A FLAT CONTRADICTIO.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 30, 19 February 1879, Page 3

A FLAT CONTRADICTIO.

..•.' '.''.-'■'■■;<^to'*ici_i-''--PiTOß;.''.' ■••;• : this moming's issue of your paper Mr. Thynne, of Foxton, is repojte'd to cha^e stated' at the railway lueeting, held at v Foxton or Monday l*^t,' u ''tVaJt^S.4* n '4yi'»'' the clearing or township WFfteherbert is of the poorest y|l^e^ttffl«^bMOTei :^ grow '• \sic). Allow me to give' an absolute denial to Mr. Thynne's statements., r Had he not dragged mv name into this railway controversy^e-nirght have steted. anything -her liked for auglit I care' as, I thi-j^rMry Thypne's 'truth Wd^ veracity ought r tt> be sufficiently - known by thit^ : time c i« make -people estimate mssayfegs(s;ty their proper >aitiey Jbnt "wtUsß^ -he tries io sh^et4 himself: behip*i;nie m foisting a bare** faced falsehood on the public, tne aspect ..of the.; cfa*»f 13: ?jr4WiM!d, and; it '- wioirjl^'be complicity to remain silent. In the first place, no plough has hitherto been introduced into;the Fitzherberton clearing, as.far asyl am aware.and nopart of the open land found there has as yet ybwu; ploughed---neither three times, ?ioritwice, «jy»in once-; consequently : - it-was and is impossible f or me to speak ;©f paying to^plciiigh three times " before thi seed would grow^'y Secondly, Mr. I ll&y^e asserts that much of the Fitz-.;^rbi-_*t district w^Cknp^o <*> him, ashe had lived a w^elc m it, and the land m the clearing was pf the'poorest play. 4bout elerqn; yeiirs '*igo Mr, Thynne . ita'yed at my place for two days. All yeliat he knows about' Fitzherbert must have been acquired m that short time. di 2had*. barely -taten possession of the =• clearing the flax and toitoi— -ceyering 'itrtd the height of 1 (pight to ten feet — hadjustbeen^urned offi and probably Mr. .Thynne, whose education had been completed m ithe -«|r|e.is of London, and j /•jfco|e/ iarmipe iz^ejtice; hacLJuen-j fimite^ to a |i^^ *p^*rj of the sand-hills between Fbxtpjj $o.s Motoi, thought " tlie ico*(phe/l-up^ 'soit*|p;ojed poor; yet I think' men, with some knowledge of .soil |t?diU wenrking r woct.l^, '7\pp glo-C to pass' -judgment upon it as, the poorest clay. J_^ual tc» *ay p|. the, ppen land i,n;the r neighborhood of Feililing.'it maynbt br £i-st-c_-uty^ cbn-sidbredfor-tilla^e .ra^seff superior 'to ;*veh rtheriigtit' jr^dh "|rai^fi.\spil^ y_^d''* f wiU- :: i it'and cropping ; fqr' ■' i tbuck '; U>nge'r" period. IndefrencJe^t of all this, the virjiple btart^xleartngj! contains Eerhapt an arisa of ; ' from foijr to, five, undred acres, and «*n; serve as' little it a guide to the general quality of the Fitzherbert bush country as the Palmersion clearing" fo| tj|ie .s^ri^undine disytricsfs'.. _^it«f^s ">'. c%ts, ' -l^ild IP^a> ; grpwiv on bush' land 'ra-F-itzhei-bert can fully compare t|s to quantity and ouality of yield withVany (^b^jOrpv^cm the ndrth iide.of t^e/Ma.nawsij'tu River, lam not ap rash with figure^ as .Mr, Thynne, and should not lTke"to ma^P _\' statement %■ to the' extent of land eTent^lly to -be - opened tap by _■. tailway by way of Fitzherberton to Palmerston befor»'investigating the snfe|ei.t '^hpro-vgluy ;* muc_i I may safely say, that : __T;Tkypne's estimate is entirely beside , tx^fcli;i--i a___.;^^ l^ ■"-' ,y, .I ;7 0-%lmerstonNdrth^ ri v .•• ''*'■* '"]■■: . \ i2th,Jß7s'