CAPT. TUCKER'S LETTER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1115, 5 August 1882, Page 2

CAPT. TUCKER'S LETTER.

TO'. THE FBITDH7 "

Sin,—ln a portion of- Capt. Tucker's lettff, which appeared in your issue of the 4th, he states that, Major .Sc-taly .-wa* not deputed to inquire’into the charge (referred to by him) in consequence of SergL Kidd's report. I oan tell. Capt. Tucker that whether deppted or n.qt Major Soully did make the inquiries’ in consequence of Kidd's report, Capt, Tucker also states that Sergt. Kidd had long left the district when the Government agreed to allow itli* Inspector to report, but-Copt. Tuokefforbears toying that thi.ettqUifita Were madelflng before Kidd was removed ; he also states that Kidd’s report was the cause of his removal. If Captain Tucker could only peruse tire communication which caused Kidd's removal, he ; woiild clearly see that hfl i* in ,orr®.'£G»pt. Tucker says that tlie Editor was not in tire district at the time referred to; and could riot know tlie particulars of the case. I can only say, that if you were not in the district rt th* tins*, all your statements are quite correct wherever you received ybui* iriformatibri) and tbit the whole matter is misrepresented by Capt. Tuokes'i lettel'.—l sm, fa'., Truth..

TO .lIJHE EDITOR. , Sir,— No doubt during your sojourn in Gisborne, you have met wjth a good many instances of meanness, but if you know of anything to exceed; tlie, fallowing true, story (du tell);.; Xrttetday a gentleman .(?)■, or a being, entered, a lawyer’s office in this town, he wished to' send a'letter across the river,' there was a nice little boy in the office well clad, with a nito pair of clean strong boots on his feet, but it was raining very hard,'and the toodji were filthy, so the gentleman could not ’’send the nice litttobpy,Rutiie sent. Mm to a house nearly bi>pdsite to fetch' a 1 poor little boy wittant!shoe*’ or -stockings;on, to carry thq letter through the rain., and mud, promt*ing'.to pay him for His trouble. The poor little boy took the jjtoli gvntlemau'r’ietter, waited for an answer,' brtmglrt-fir--back l to the office’, was,then,told to take it to the gentleman at another lawyer’s office, some distance away, this he did, and received for his pains, And getting Writ through, what ? A benny. | one solitary penny piece I beside the honor (to a poor little.bay) of being allowed to wait. on a gentleman. Whp was that gentleman ? not the Prince of Merchant*, -but a sort of half-bred s[ercbaut Prince, The mother thought of enclosing the coin and returning it, I said; rib my boy, he might do'it agkfti, the probability is you will outlive th* gentleman (alt’nougli you Fave’got 'well Wet) attend his funeral, and drop the penny on hi* coffin, it. will b* all he lias leti. ■ ’ ' ' Moral for poor littlb boy*: Always know the figure before you do anything for a gentleman vriiti pr’dniisk* to pay ymi wtll'. i il : am fa., Ani«-La-d»-dab.