(To the Editor).

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 329, 29 December 1888, Page 2

(To the Editor).

Sir — In answer to Mr Murray's narrative of the cape, re >lispttig of Sections 2 and 3 Thames Higl* School Endowment, as published in the News of tjhe 19th fast., in which he says I attempt to place his brother in a -false position, and hold myself up as a- ioartyr of ill usage by a perversion 'of- the truth, I observe lie gives a Bketch' of the first transaction, and now he says the £50 paid by me to him was swallowed up in expenses and interest. Now I am prepared to prove that £50 1 paid by a cheque oi the Aroha branch of the Bank of New Zealand, which was cashed the next day. Respectjng the secoud transaction he says : "In pity for this mans positibn my brother unfortunately complied with the request to Vy to get the Board to taka him or his "wife as tenant." Now, it is a well-known fact that the Murray's had been trying to dispose of these sections for a length of time/before I bought them the second timewhenlpatd £10 on ihera accordipg to agreement. Mr Thos. Murray's ag^jtt promise! to transfer the lease the following week, and they were only too g(»d ; to sell this land to anyone that they could make the best bargain with. Now I owed nothing to Mr Murray. \ was under no obligation to. him. I owed nothing to the High School Board, it was a straight forward bargain, on an agreement, stamped and signed, and I was then entitled to the transfer,, But in place of getting the transfer, I now quote his own words. Note he says : uln pity for this mans position my brother unfortunately complied with the request to try to get the Board to •take him or his wife as tenant." Now . what pitysJiad I occasion to ask this man for? I required 119 pity from bim. I think he rieeled all the pity for himself, for perhaps he is just as poor as myself. But let him look at home before he casts stones at, others, although it is no disgrace to be poor; but it shows smallness of mind wljen a man throws poverty in another's face, for {his is a world of ups and downs. But to return to Mr Murrajfs pitiful request of the lease : Why did pot Mr Murray go like a man and hay his back arrears, before asking the fjqard to transfer the lease, instead of taking the £10 and promising to transfer ? He knew the lease ' could not be transferred until the back arrears were , paid. Again he says the result might have been, different if I had not Failed to" pay ye»t. Yes T must • agree with him in that, the result would- have .ma>le a great difference to me. Now I never entered iritoTany agreement t) become Mr Jklurraj's tenant, or ever had, any inten(;ion r of paying Mr Murray any rent, • nor have any intention of doing so until I get the, .transfer, j^gain he says his brother, instructed, h^in, remove me from the sections, but on "the urgent and plantiye appeal of Mrs Qadfiejd ' he left it in ' abeyance. Now this < part of Murray's. proceedings is li^e the landlords in Inland \}§, re,. s -q,bcu-. When I was confined to my bed wjth * broken thigh, you will see by his own w.ortlSj thatis tlje time that this man waatryiiig^ sell my home over my head, and deruariurinar; rent when he knew he cdujd »pt 'H so by law, neither 'couldhe* sell jtffrßlace, and I dare him to v do so; *^swv thjs.is,- ' the c jstyle of ' sympathy Jhis man was, l bestowing 1 upon n»ej to'sell my home to--pay hisowif arreai^ot rent. When he,, finds h^annotjJdGt.himseJf he' advises/ -the BoaVd '#> d#H, Does^ Murraythmk all jwou|d^tie^smpUhUsftiling \t £Ue| !».a.a 'solflimyMpjaco'to pay hiB own rent,,? ,^jr. v future crfrreapondohoc Mi; ;Murr»v -raajr' hnjre io sny I' shall, treat with (^t<»n>t, J as !he .wi}l J havean oppqi;tiiiiity^j^i)vinff <thls truth tftmy't statwnijpjitAyg.hpij^jttftice wijl 1)« done., Apologisinif fqi'.,trou^lin^ yo c li, I »in,j;?tc., '*•""*- - Edw^bt Hadfield, Waorongomai,