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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 135, 7 June 1875, Page 2

To the Editor of the ♦ Evening Mail.' Sir — If the Colonist in furnishing on Saturday what purport* to be a Bke*ch, or report, of a conversation alleged to have talc n place in the Provincial C> uncil on Thursday nigh', during a debate, had, when heading the said so called report with the words in invertel commas " Their little ways," have also footed the same with the word communicated in the u*ual italics in such ciues made and provided, not the least necessity would have existed for one to have t>ken the smallest notice either of it, or of the Colonist, as the report v ould have carried v ith it its own condemnation. Th? fact, however, th <t many persons have not the time for critical enquiry, and are very much dispos-d to accept ne pospel whatever appears in print toil' hing proceedings of public bodes, such as the Provincial Legislature, furni'hts a sufficient ieas n for induci"g »•« to condescend a ptssinv reference to the matter The only comment, then, which shall be made by me, shall be confined to the first paragraph, and to tha 1 tart of the concluding onn, each having reference to what ia sttittd to have been iaid by Mr Donne; as to the remainder <'f ihe repot it c^n pass for what; it is worth. Both of these stut' im-nts, as revorwd, form a charauttrisuc aivi wiliul pfrversi m of the truth, if tlulatter is a> all to I>p wondered Ht, to eacli of which I give a distinct <!(-niaJ. Bey on- • this I nm indisposed to gratify anybody, by applying either information or explanation; lor the ironical suggestion of the member for Central Buller, Mr M'Gregor, that if the words of the mfitnber for Charleston were to be taken down, ihi?y shouli' »lso be framed and glazed mid duly distiibuted, fully rottiiats ne, hh it may j;wbabJy J h«t. of many oihera, and furnish n s the best iioknowltdamc-nt one could have. The Cohnist iht.n, or those wlio m»y exerdsia isn-orehp over it, arc very welcome to tin last vord upon the au'.i"nt, if the having of i f shouM b^ found to «if..T.l either tho ouj or the o:her any satisfaction. X am, iic , Gkorob Donnp. Nelspn, May 7, 1876. <