CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

*** "We are desirous of affording every reasonable facility for the discussioa of public subjects; but it must be understood that we are in no way responsible tot the opinions expressed by correspondents, "THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR." To the Editor op the. Nelson Evening Mail. Sib, — I would like to know, 1. Whether it was to Mr. O'Corior's.ipterest or. not, as a sufferer, to a great ,and ruinous extent by sea encroachments, to ' do anything to

intercept the gift which ' it was proposed to make to them ? I think not. 2. Whether the Council gave time to consider what they were doing when passing a resolution which, lo a sensitive, high-principled man, would be worse than death ? i" am sure they did not, for I was in thf. Hall when the evidence was read ; listened to it carefully ; and I say no man should have come to a decision from that hurried reading ; and I know that during tbe interval it lay on the table, not one looked at it after it was read. It being acknowledged that he was in the room ; where was he ? I believe all the evidence shows that he was at a distant window, reading the whole time a famous debate in the Victorian Parliament, which few could read without being completely absorbed in it. The Provincial Council is th? last place in the world where it should be said that a man " must hear." I think I heard the very man (or some one near him) who said that, the other night, after a question had been put twice in the plainest manner by the Speaker, and when sitting within arm's length of " him," (Sir, will you repeat the question.) What do you say to that, Mr. Tarrant ? I am, &c, Common Sense.