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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 200, 25 August 1870, Page 2

A Novel Newspaper Correspondent —One of her legislators, of whom New Zealand may well be proud, has lately succumbed to the cacoethes scribendi —an epidemic that largely prevails in this colony —and has made his debut in the Wellington Post as a newspaper correspondent. When we say that the writer is the celebrated Genera! Mete King?, M.H.R., there can be no doubt that his letter will be read with considerable interest, and we therefore have no hesitation in publishing it: — Wellington, ISth. August, IS7O. Friend, —Salutations to you. This ev9ning your newspaper was published, and I saw it. I am well pleased that you have found this man Kereopa ; now for the first time is it known that Whanganui is his fixed place of abode, now that you have proclaimed it iv your newspaper. However, you did not inform us what pa he is living in at Whanganui. I advise you to go and catch him, since you have discovered his whereabouts. You had better tell off soma Europeans at Whanganui to catch him. I am not finding fault with you (with the Wellington paper), but with the Whanganui paper, which gave you the information. My European friends, do you not take notice of newspaper publishers who tell lies. My opinis that those who tell lies should not be allowed to continue, lest they cause trouble among us. Let that man who publishes lies be prohibited from publishing anything more. Have you not heard that the Maoris of Whanganui are always considering some plan for catching Kereopa and Te Kooti ? Did you not hear that Whanganui went after Kereopa and Te Kooti ? They caught Hakaraia, but Kereopa and Te Kooti escaped —llakaraia was caugh. in the Opotiki District. Where were you that you. did not hear ? for you, the publisher of the Whanganui paper do, not appear to have heard of the pursuit after Te Kooti and Kereopa. Cease altogether publishing such lies in your paper. From me, Mete Kingi Te Raxgipaet.uii. [X his mark.]