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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 225, 3 October 1879, Page 2

To thk EiirroK of tui: 'Evening .Mail.' Snt,— l c.;:.*not help thiuking that the lottor from tin; Cj!lc-£;c boys t.) Mr Acton Adams is causing a great deal of unnecessary correspondence, aud 1 think it. would have boun batter hid it not been published, but at the same time I think it very unfair to hint that Mr Adams' reply is iv part untruthful. I refer to the letter in this morning's Colonist signed b.y " Bell the Cat," where he says "Rumor No. 1 has it that opinion is by no means unanimous as to who was head boy at the College twenty yeara ago, Sec." In justice to Mr Adams, as an old schoolfellow, I feel-it right to inform Mr " Bell the-Cat " that hi,* rumor U eutirely without foundation. I:i December, 1859, Actou Adams, being the head boy, was appointed by the Rev. J C Bagsbaw* the first Principal, to read the address to Governor Browne ou the day of the laying of the foundation stove of the new College. He continued to hold that honorable position until he left College, when he was succeeded, if 1 remember "rightly, en her by Heury Otterson of Nelson, or Henry 'Ihompsou of Sydney.— l nm, Sec A Cou.kgi; Roy Twi-nti* Vi:ar-* Ago Nehon, October -2, 1879.