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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 57, 8 March 1875, Page 2

To the Editoh ov the 'Evening Mail.' flu—Asnn acquaintance of Mr Mirfm's. and a taUpapu-, 1 think I have a perfict right to edeavor to protect that person's eh .racter | from being slandered by false and I could almost consider my eolf justified in sa)ing base as.ert'ors I a'lude to the remarks made by CV. Bura at the last meeting ot tlie Councils there stated tliat the gas worka were in a diegrartful state when handed o^er by Mr Mil tin to them. To euch a statement I give a flit denial,ana Ihpeit will cause such a friend rf Mr Mirfm's as Cr. Burn Ins always pr.ifi s<ed to be. both publicly and otherwise, to offer both him nnd the public au apology for such a gross mis-staten ent. I ask him and the public also to read the report of Messrs Brown and Moutray when the workß were handed over. But there is an old saying, "It takes an infiuite amount of trouble to wash a black man white." In fact I have heard it described as "labor in vain." He &]bi stated tliat Mr Mirfin during his I management had allowed a shameful waste of coke by wheeling away and burying, and which was now being turned to account by the present management. Wiih regard to the last sentence I do net wish to say one word at present, and I think the lcs3 Cr. Burn harps upon that string the better,otherwise I eh'lljoininthe chorus But as t:> the former portion of that statement, it is fa^e, and I will only tell Cr. Burn this, that if he cannot aff »rd to be honeßt towards absent brothers, he might at least endeavor to utter some truth, and, from my krowledge of Mr Mirfin, he is one of the last men that would allow Cr Burn (aad I t ink the pubic have a pretty good idea ol his abilities tince he has been in the Council) ti traduce his character cne iota by statements _o reckless ami unfounded. —l am, &c, W. Cooksey.