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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 171, 22 July 1870, Page 2

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir — If your correspondent " Fiat Justitia" hail truth or justice on his side he would not be ashamed to sign his name to his attacks on me, as, however, he has not done so I care little about taking the trouble to set him right on a subject on which he appears to be altogether at sea. I have now for many years been a member of the Board of Works, and have devoted a very great deal of time and labor to the improvement of the town, and can say without fear of contradiction that I have never in any way whatever sought to use my influence at the Board to my own advantage, by improving any property belouging to me in the town of Nelson, aud when I stated that I lived in a street (Tra-falgar-street North) which had never had a penny spent upon it by the Board, I was stating what was perfectly correct. With regard to the statement of " Fiat Justitia" that " the Board had spent large sums of money in cheeking the wayward tendency of the Maitai in the vicinity of Mr. Burn's property," I cau only say that it is of a piece with his other assertion. I do not believe that one penny has, during the last year, been spent by the Board iu my immediate neighborhood. I am, &c, Robert Burn. P.S. — I may state that nearly all the public money spent on the protective works of the Maitai has been met by equivalent subscriptions from the persons benefitted by them .