ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 604, 17 May 1851, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the “New Zealand Spectator," River Hutt, May 15, 1850. Sir, —Seeing in the Wellington Independent an article purporting to be a report of the meeting which took place at the Hutt, relative to the Fencing Act, I have been induced to trouble you with a few remarks upon it. That the writer (who is known) is actuated by motives of personal animosity against some of the parties named is not onlj evident by the wording of the report, but is an established fact here in the Hutt; tlie observations of Mr. VV. Milo e are contemptuously passed over, and the sneer conveyed in his notice of them is undeserved. Mr. Milne suggested some really useful and practical amendments, which were well received and adopted by the meeting, but Mr. M’Doffah s speech, which is reported at full length, with an addition to it that was not spoken., contained no observation really useful, but tojudge from the theatrical pomposity he used in the delivery of it, he appeared to take to himself great credit for his useless calculation, probably the work of some hours, as to the relative expense of fencing in one acre, two acres, or ten acres ; the remaining part of the report is agrotuitous insult to the parties named in it> al y being for the most part highly exaggerate"! conveys an idea contrary to the truth. fact that your journal is the medium forth® support of truth and the consequent dispersion of falsehood is my excuse for addressing y oU ‘ I remain, Sir, your’s respectfully! Raven.