ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 828, 9 July 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, Bth July, 1853. Sir, — Ab it is now generally known that His Excellency the Governor, on his return from his visit to the sister settlements, will, with his Lady, shortly leave for Auckland, preparatory to his return to Europe, to avail himself of the leave of absence accorded to him by the Home Government, I feel impelled through the medium of your paper to suggest that a Public Meeting of, the Inhabitants of Wellington and its environs be convoked for the Evening of Monday, the 18th instant, at 6 for 7 o'clock precisely, to give expression to the regret generally felt by them at-his Excellency's intended departure, to convey their wishes for his safe arrival, and that of Lady Grey, at their destination through the protective care of a benign Providence, and to impart their thanks to them for the kind feeling and urbanity they have invariably displayed towards the settlers during their residence here, as well as to express the assurance of their high appreciation of the great benefits conferred by His Excellency's Government in the" resuscitation of the resources of this Colony from an* almost hopeless state of bankruptcy, in converting an all bnt implacable hatred between the Aborigines and Settlers into a well cemented bond of Union, by putting an end to Savage , Warfare and teaching the Natives the arts of agricultural industry, and by substituting for the uplifted tomahawk, the plough, the spade, and hoe, and lor having opened sources for the promotion of intellectual light, the great foundation of all human happiness, by the establishment of Publjc Schools and the general spread of Educations I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, ABRAHAM HORT, Senior.

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, July 8, 1853. Sir, — In last Wednesday's Independent along report is published of a public meeting at the Hutt on the previous Friday, in which Mr. E. GWakefield takes a leading part, and the report of which he has furnished himself. In Mr. Wakefield's speech he attacks Sir George Grey with a heap of abuse, which Sir George, knowing the quarter from which- it comes will, I dare say, treat with the contempt it deserves. Mr. Hickson is also hauled over the coals for showing up the would-be importer of Chinamen, or rather Chinese slaves, into this colony; indeed, if I were to say Chinese convicts, I

should not be far wrong — hut for this letter Mr. Hickson, in ray humble opinion, deserves the thanks of the working classes. Then he attacks me — " Doctor John Watson, as he is called, the Town Crier" — for incivility, and insinuates that Sir George and the editor of the Spectator must have egged me on to it. Now, sir, I must beg you to allow me to tell Mr. Wakefield his insinuations are false, and to say I am not ashamed to own I did summon him for the sum of six shillings that he owed me, having first twice asked him myself, . and having also sent my boy three different times to his house in the Karori road for the payment of these six shillings. *Mr. Wakefield is very fond of giving his advice to ihe working classes — let this pretended friend of the working men and importer of Chinese slaves take a bit of advice from a working man, and learn, before he talks of his generosity, to pay his just debts, and not oblige working men to compel him to pay what he owes them. I am, sir, your humble servant, DOCTOR JOHN WATSON.