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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4592, 8 December 1875, Page 2

With regard to that matter of the report of Mr. Travers’ speech, concerning which we offered some good natured observations jester- : day, we are sorry to learn that pressure on the’ brain prevented the appearance of a- very ill-i matured rejoinder somewhere else’last night. • Under the circumstances we cheerfully accede ,; to a request made to us to publish the rejoinder; • ourselves, at the same time observing thati something of a similar character will, in all; likelihood, be published this evening. ; Thej following is the rejoinder:—“That/wretched; type of effeminate literature which apes to; itself the title of ‘a colonial journal, and is; known to some half-dozen readers as thej New Zealand Times, has had’the, audacity ■to deny the truth pf our.assertions as regarded: the’ full, accurate; and more than complete’ report of Mr. Travers’ speech which we; furnished.. We advisedly use the words ‘more than complete,’ since it is a fact that, thanks; to the kindness of the gifted speaker, wo were in the proud position of being able to afford’ our readers a good deal more than’ Mr. Travers; actually said; and yet our puerile contemporary; has had the impertinence to insinuate that we

had no reporter present at/Mr. Travers’-meet-ing.’ We repel the insinuation with loathing 'anidisgusti We had no-representative at the [reporters’ ■ table, it iktrue, ffihtjwe-had several In the crowd of working- men grimed by the sweat, of honest labor, who hung with delight on Mr. Travers’ utterances; and we may point out that so thoroughly identified are we with the working man’s cause, that we could have defied the most acute observer to have picked out our reporters from amidst the crowd. We trust that this explanation will be considered satisfactory by our readers, and by our utterly worthless contemporary.”