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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5470, 8 October 1878, Page 3

[advertisement.] Mourn the spirit fled. Mourn, for Boardman (weeps). TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sin, —Can anj of your readers inform me what has become of my 4 . young friend the " Agent South British Insurance Company ?" X feel rather anxious about him. I trust he has not been engaged all this time carrying on a mild flirtation with sweetly pretty Miss Silence; Boardman ! My reason .for asking is that some short time since I made him a conditional promise to tell him something. But lately Mr. Boardman, in his capacity of Agent South British Insurance Company, published a letter in your columns in which he made use of some very bard expressions respecting myself, concluding with : 11 1 must apologise for * washing dirty linen abroad,’ but I cannot allow Mr,. Williams’s effusions to pass unchallenged. 1 shall not notice him again, but anyone who feels curious to khow how a J.P. can, by twisting facta,'make the worse appear the better cause, can have his curiosity gratified by calling at ray office." Mr. Boardman’s letter reminded me of " No case, abuse plaintiff’s attorney." As I was, pleading the cause •f others, not my own, I called upon Mr.Boardman to publish what he had to show his friends. Mr. Boardman has not.done.so.. I will now proceed to tell Mr. Boardman something. Some years ago,* whilst attending a school feast at the Hutt, t was witness to a discussion between two little girls. The discussion waxed warm, when one little, girl said to the other little girl, “Oh, you story," I trust I shall'not be requesting you to. order to be put in print that unfitting to adorn the, columns of a newspaper when I request permission to say to Mr. Boardman, " Oh, you story." I now desire to say ,a few. words to ..this so manly "Agent South British Insurance Company," who first brings his offensive charges against me, then retires so majestically, saying, " t shall not notice him again, but anyone," &c.,—-then "wash" my hands, of bo very promising a young gentleman ** Boardman, come here; I dodre a few words with you." (Knter Agent, looking pale and anxious; the "J.P." looking hia best and severest.) "Youf company is a very respectable company is it not ?" —" Yes, please your Worship." " How about that declaration ‘Taken and declared at before me a juntico of the peace in and for the colony of" New 1 Zealand ?’ How about your refusal r o compel the poor man who made that declaration to return the money with'your statement that you ‘ did not want the money”? Kow about your retaining the, money after it had been returned to you, wholly owing to' action taken by the trustee , to the property, with your threat to said trustee that if he did not at once establish his claim in a Court of Law, such money would be returned to the party who made said declaration, even af er your own and your directors* admission that such insurer had no insurable interest whatever in the property insured ? It appears that you, Sir, like mauy others of your kind, whilst ready enough to avail yourselves of the protection of the law, are equally ready when it suits your purpose to aid and abet others in evading (if npt worse) the law Also ready with .certain M.H.R.’s, who ought to know better, t to do your u moat to discourage, and to cast your very objectionable remarks in the - faces of. those high minded and disinterested (coughs slightly) men whose high calling and sacred duty it is for aind athbug their follows highly, truly, and impartially, to hold tho scales of justice. And this is the way you show jyour regard for the true interests of . " mankind, and posterity," ‘‘Please, ;flir, ‘that’s-not me, air." - " Never mini, no time just now to distinguish and par- i fciculariwq'yptt- are a sad mischievous lot; you | richly deserve,' each oho of you, to be knocked i like that overgrown defiant miscreant of j old into just so, many cocked hats with small boys* catapults. And you, sir, ; have beon : .writing ;to \ tho paper saying ‘I shall hot notice .him again,’ How dare ! you writein. such manner regarding a J.P." (Agent almost faints). " Go ; away, you poor neglected, ill-instructed youug two* tooth ; go | travel in search of teeth, taking with you that wretched ‘declaration,’ and when you may havo arrived at that respectable ago known among men ,of ; tho crook as six-tooth, then ro* turn and set yourself up as agent, as champion and defender of , the ? acts and conduct of : a great big company ; meanwhile, young man, you may learn to amend your, manners, and to make uso of more,; becoming language, .-when speaking or writing, of one of her Majesty’s J.P.'s Your sailing orders, "pack up,” &c., and “ trot." ... ■*_ Sir, I havo endeavored through your columns, by a simple narrative .of, tho facts, to .*place before the public a very serious.matter affecting tho interest ed property holders, /.c.,_.tho holders of -insurable; property.. Xu. mv ■.simplicity«l thought'-perhaps the Chamber of Commerce- might take the mutter up- again, that*tho‘ogents-of the different insurance companies; so liberally supported by a confiding public* might have,done so, lam now pained to the -conclusion' that theta is a . much of a tauohne^ r aftmt dur ton ofhmilanES .tho more