TAR AND FEATHERS.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1856, 14 December 1874, Page 2

TAR AND FEATHERS.

To the Editor of the Evening Sta3.

Sic, —Would you oblige by informing the public whether the renegade who dictated the* letter from Te Moananui to Sir Donald McLean, endeavouring to impede the opening of Ohinemuri (arid the praiseworthy efforts of Mr Mackay to attain the desired end), is identical with the loafer of the same name who sometime ago tried to work a swindle by representing that he knew of rich gold-bearing reefs at Wangamata, and "who more recently obtained money on. the strength of having found a good coal seam, when it transpired that the sample of coal shown had been borrowed from a person residing up-country, it having come from the Bay of Islands. Is theire no law to reach this human parasite who from selfish, servile motives endeavours to injure the who\e community, and more especially the bbna fide prospectors, so many of whom have patiently awaited the opening of the country for many years ? I have seen tar and feathers used to better men, and consider a good application would be attended with beneficial results in the present instance. There are few on this field but will bear me- out that the individual in question has well merited tar and feathering at the hands of the hard-working population of the Thames. —I am &c,

Detbbge.

Grahamstown, Dec. 14th, 1874.

[Anyone acting in the manner indicated by our correspondent would be more effectually punished by putting the law in motion than by setting it at defiance and applying'" tar and feathers," which would be a serious matter for the operators, and decidedly unpleasant fpr the person operated upon. Ed. §tar.l