ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 741, 21 May 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New-Zealasder. Sir, — In the Ni.w-Zf.alandeu of the .‘loth nit., is a letter from Mr, Powditch, in which appears the following paragraph • “Then there was Mr. G. Clarice, whose ease Mr. Brown and 4 Mctoikos’ defended, and who was put in by the manoeuvre of Mr. Williams, who it is said, first started Mr. Bushy, and then left him for Clarke.” It is difficult to make out to whom the writer refers, while the paragraph contains a serious charge against some Mr. Williams or other, that he having first 44 started Mr. Bushy” deserted him for Mr. Clarke. 1 will not make any remarks upon the above, any further than to correct a statement likely to convey a very erroneous impression. The last Election in the Bay of Islands was attended with much excitement and difference of opinion, as is usual in all Elections, hut that a 44 Mr. Williams first started Mr. Bushy, and then left him for Clarke,” is altogether incorrect.—l am, Sir, yours, Ac., llexry Williams, Jun. Bay of Islands, 11th May, 1858. To the Editor of the Nevv-Zbalandf.r. Snq—] can make nothing of Mr. James White’s letter addressed to you, and published in the Southern Cross this morning with the astounding intelligence that its columns are open now “ to all parties” and at all times ! I have read the communication from left to right and from right to left. 1 have turned it up, I have turned it down, yet I can make nothing out of it, except a slight token that Mr. White is angry with me ; that having drawn forth an effusion of his from the dim recesses of the Southern Cross columns, I did not take the trouble to expose any inconsistency with his former net in which he may now pi ase to indulge; he is really too cross about such a trifle ; had 1 been at all aware that M r. White was desirous to have it t rum petted forth to the world, tint he considers it to his interest to support the man whom he once had the manly straightforwardness to accuse of saying, 41 a greatTleal calculated to prejudice the pensioners in the eyes of the settlers and the pubi c at large, and to do them a permanent injury” had 1 been aware that he had wished it publicly known to his comrades, that being now comfortably housed in an easy quilldriving berth, and, therefore, out of the reach of the operation of the rate of wages, he is prepared to support the man who complained 44 of the enormously high rate of Bs. per day which the pensioners were receiving.” If I had known that Mr. White was desirous to call up the indignation and antipathy of all hiscomrades, I would certainly have indulged him, but 1 was too kind, too considerate : —the fact is I had heard that Mr. White was looking out for a seat as one of the representatives of the Pensioners Villages in the Provincial Council, and as 1 had hj ard too, that Mr. Brown was intending to wing the flight of his ambition in that direction, when thoroughly convinced of the utter absurdity of his attempt at the Superintendency, I had thought it a pity to spoil sport, and bettc r Mr Brown’s chance, in a contest against Mr. White However I have done with Mr. White ! all I wanted with him or his letter, was to show in his own effective language, the opinion which the pensioners.held of Mr. Brown, and his attacks upon them—if he thinks that the greatest enemy of the pensioners, “the poor pensioners,—the dramdrinking pensioners,” as Mr. W.Browncalledthcm in 1847, —now, in 1853— can he a better friend to them than Colonel Wynyard, a gentleman who could hold, and would be admitted to hold intercourse with the Governor, there is no doubt that he has a right to enjoy his opinion, but I there are few of his comrades who will not think he has a very perverted taste. I had intended ere this to have said somewhat about the exceeding vile attack once made by the Southern (trass upon another higher in rank among

the pensioners than Mr. White, and may take another opportunity to deal with this and oilier matters —so as that the animus of this Mr, Brown towards the pensioner iorce, up to the time when he thought their vites of some consequence, may be plainly understood by every one of them, as well at ITowick as it is now at the other three settlements. Indeed the Ho wick people—officers and men—were more maligned by the Southern Cross than the Company’s at the other settlements, except indeed at one time when some of Mr. Brown’s friends attempted to injure the character of the inhabitants of Panmurc. —I am. Sir, What’s in a Name ? To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Sir, —The accompanying note is • our answei to an untrue statement which we notice in this morning’s Southern Cross. —Yours, &c., The Proprietors of the New-Zealander, Friday, May 20th, 1853. May 20, 1853, Gentlemen, —The piece of land I pointed out to you on the map, and recommended you to apply for, adjoins the wood at Ramma Rarvnna, and is farther south than that which was applied for by Mr. Reid. I recommended yoip to apply for it, because I thought no other application had been sent in for that portion of the block, and your application was written out under my directions as to locality, and delivered on Monday, the 18th, to the'Commissioncr, in my presence. —I am, vours, &c., P. J. Hogan, Surveyor. Messrs. Williameon & Wilson.