ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 783, 15 October 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander.

Sir, — I put ft cop)*- of the inclosed into the Editor’s Box of the Southern Cross yesterday afternoon, about two o’clock, with my name affixed to a request that it might be inserted in this day’s issue, but no notice whatever has been taken of it. The Editor of the Southern Cross seems to have had no hesitation in giving publicity to an accusation, and it would have been well, if he aspires to the reputation of an impartial and honorable public journalist, if he had shewn equal readiness in publishing the refutation of the accused, even though that refutation should expose his own ignorance of the facts of the case. As my letter, however, has not been acceptable to your contemporary, and as I wish the matter, so far at least as the Wardens arc concerned, to be placed in a true light before the public, will you do me the favour of publishing it in your columns, and oblige, yours, &c., A. Hears. Friday, October 14, 1853. [Copy. J To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, —In your issue of the 11th instant, there is an article headed “ The Slaughter-house Nuisance,” in which the following charge is brought against the Wardens, “ the Superintendent, we are told, has applied in vain to the Wardens for the funds required to purify the place, but the Wardens decline to [grant the supplies, and in consequence, the public are subjected to its noisome and noxious exhalations.” As a general rule the best answer to a false accusation is silence, as calumny when unfounded refutes itself; but, as another proof of how little dependence is to be placed in the statements contained in your columns, I beg to inform your readers that the Wardens have not received any funds from the slaughter-house for the current year, and therefore cannot be charged with declining to grant what they never received. The Wardens do not pretend to account for this fact, but simply assert it was only Tuesday last, the day when you charged them with imimproper parsimony, that they were informed by the Colonial Secretary that the Slaughter-house fees up to the 30th June, liad been paid into the hands of the Colonial Treasurer.—Yours, &c., One of the Wardens. October 12th, 1853.