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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 53, 11 March 1843, Page 209

!t\Y the THOMAS SPARKSJLJ 40 barrels Jrish'pork 85 barrels bottled ale SO firkins butter 0 boxes tea 10 kegs herrings. .'■ 6 barrels oatmeal ,4 bags coffee- .' :4 boxes candles a bales blankets 1 hogshead brandy 1 puncheon rum 4 kegs whiskey . And sundry surplus stores. A MOBBISON & SCLANPBBB, Fe%uary 24. Auckland Point. -6 HINGLING NAIL S. kJ MOBBIBON & SCLANPEBS, .February 10. Auckland Point. AFRESH BUTTER, 3s. per lb. -a- - H. W. Bubt. Haffe* Road, February 4. lX T the STORE of the undersigned— jGL Prime salt Pork, ex Hannah, &c. &c. &c. y^ Nathan & Joseph, BULLOCKS FOR SALE. v r Four pair of very superior well-broken working BULLOCKS, imported by tbe Union. Also, several Cows sad Heifers. The above cattle are running in the WeSI Waimea, and may be seen on applying to John Maxwell, at Wr.^|ytler's, Aldourie. [/ TO Mb. ALFRED SAUNDERS. — That you have succeeded in KJ " arousing public suspicion " against some persons in your trade, I will not atteuipt to deny. ■ The tongue or pen of any libeller is competent to' the task ; for. it is not necessary that he should possess either talent or honesty to do it. But, sir, it is quite a different thing, to give the stamp of credibility to your charges by an incontestable proof. ' You are cunning enough to know this, and hence vow disposition to slide out of this dilemma by the side wind of an inuendo. Your station in society, sir, might have afforded you some protection in a contest with tome men, and acquired for you a little more respect than would be shewn to men of more plebeian rank. But, sir, lam not going to be driven from my purpose by the false glare of your station, neither shall the chastisement you merit be withheld, because you happen to be a storekeeper. Ido not war with your -person or your trade, btft with crime and cowardice, by which yet bate disgraced both. Neither I nor the public will rest satisfied till you have named the guilty parties, or stamped the brand mark of villany on your own brow by your own incapacity. Two weeks have now elapsed since you were first called upon for proof, and still your pen wanders from the real purpose for which alone you are-justified in using it. Sir, to end merely where you have begun, is only wasting time and spoiling paper ; and I very much doubt whether such conduct will beeito««*rVsceable to your pocket, creditable to your mind, OTlreSoßfaWe to your heart. The public, too, sir. know veil enough that mere suspicion is at best "a coward's virtue," and it requires more than the random tongue of scandal is capaple of, to induce- them to withdraw their custom from others to feed yoi»F*varice or gratify your spleen. Sir. with respect to the two loaves, of which the light weight one was yours and the heavy one mine, I am not at all surprised that you should say it was nevrr offered for sale. Oh, upright man 1 There was a light weight loaf araonsst the batch, and thy conscientious heart laid it on tbe <ide-. board to impose upon those whose dependence would stifle the just voice of complaint ! You scorned to cheat the public, yet you could cheat your own man with an easy mind and a tranquil hc.irt. Neither, sir, was it unexpected on my part, that you should account for the light weight by " your nun " eatinpr the loaf as he carried it home ; for, you liad no other way of getting out of tbe difficulty. But, 'even here, the miserable subterfuge is too weak to enable it to pas* current, even with your friends, for your statement is rebutted by the testimony of witnesses whose integrity is w good as any in tbe colony. Sir. is it likely that " your man " would have contented to weigh one of your loaves with mine, if le» bad known it was under the standard weight ? That it tea* " short weight " appears b.y your own letter, for that was the reason you " laid ifon the side-hoard," and this was the reason you gave it to your man. And, sir, supposing that yours to a cottage loaf, — why was it under weight? You need not attempt to escape from tho charge, for, to attempt to palliate or deny it, will only make you appear ridiculous. You seem also to have an especial attachment to the generout thought, that all the quarrelling and weighing bas taken place since you told us to " weigh our bread ; " and would iniinuate that I had altered the weight of my bread in conse. quence of your advertisement. Sir, that this were even possible, I unhesitatingly deny ; for ray bread was out of the oven six hours before your thoit lived advertisement appeared in print. When you stated that some bakers were selling " light bread," it was natural that I should set myself right with the public by weighing my bread over the counter ; and Ido not think it will lessen me in public estimation to have offered to weigh any loaf on my shelves with one of yours in the presence of three impartial witnesses. You, sir, may be mean enough to hint that I altered the weight of my bread in consequence of your notice, but people are not to be led to any conclusions you may deem expedient to suit your own purposes and maintain your credit with your friends. I have now done. .Had your fault amounted to nothing more than a little indiscretion, and on discovering that you had injured innocent parties in the sweeping tone of your censure, had as promptly corrected your blunders, I could have forgiven you. .But to indiscretion you have aided cowardice, calumny, and obstinacy ; and if you have a spark of honour in your bosom, you will, in a gentlemanly manner, apologise to me and that public whose feelings you have so wantonly outraged. " Who steals my purse, steals trash » « But he who seeks to filch from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches bun, And makes me poor indeed." Yours, respectfully, yf A» ' ROBERT ROSS. Gmje, the undersigned, respectfully inform v v the public that we have constantly bought our Bread of -Mr. Robert Ross ; and baring repeatedly weighed it, we can confidently assure them that we aXwayt fuund it good weight. Charles Harley Edward EUerm John Anderson John King Peter Crow Thomas Nicol Wm. Johnson]! Daniel Moore James Ladley William Snow Robert Beaton - • James Cookbnrn Robertf Lucas Nathaniel Whale R. Boddinjrton James Symmonds. Elizabeth Coombs P.S. — We would have given a longer list of names, but ws consider that we have given enough to prove that the nngeneronsMsinuations of Mr. Saunders are utterly without fouoUf IGHT BREAD.— We, the undersigned, JLJ beg leave respectfully to inform tbe public Sat we weee witnesses of tbe weighing of Mr. Baunders's loaf, and eaa posttiverjr assert that it was as near as possible two *met* lighter tkan Mr. Ross's, after making due allowance for the pickings of Mr. bsunden's snaa. Yours, respeetfttlyv jambs Laslxt, jobw m'domalp, O. Bunts.