TAPU PUBLIC HALL—REPLY TO "HASTINGS."

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2923, 28 June 1878, Page 3

TAPU PUBLIC HALL—REPLY TO "HASTINGS."

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib,—l notice in your issue of the 24th inst., a letter from Tapu signed " Hastings," which for barefaced lies could not be matched all the world over, i'think the gentleman who went about telling what a warming he was going to give the fel>°ws who were, at the meeting, might hav^"had a little regard for the truth. He says that a meeting was held in the Hall about six months ago, and a resolution passed to throw open the Hill to the public, a statement which he knows to be false. The" resolution carried at that meeting was to give the use of the Hall for dancing to the young people free of charge. There was not a single word said about taking the Hall out of the trustees' hands.. Where the farce is, I fail £o. see; but perhaps your correspondent's amanuensis, who is gifted with a very lively imagination, and who can see crosswise, made him believe there was such a thing. As for Tom asking Jack for the key, that's all moonshine, for the trustees were told at the meeting not to give the key to any person unless they could depend upon him to return it next morning. He also says that after the meeting the Hall door was smashed. Perhaps he could tell who smashed it, and left the place open to the goats and the pigs. I think it would have looked much better for the trustees, when the meeting was called to elect new ones, if they bid attended and given an account of the funds which they had in hand, than for one of them, a few nights after, to be rushing about, the flat in a very beery state, throwing down his hat (in " who dare stand on the tail of me coat" style), challenging any b b ■•■■■ ■ who was at the meeting to fight him. He said he had only eight shillings on hand, and he would see any man d —d first before he would give it up. But he will find out when he is brought to book that he will have to account for something like six -times eight shillings. I can't see how he can wriggie out of being a trustee for the last six months when he charged and received a shilling for the use of the hall on the 25th ultimo for tbe purpose of holding the kick-up called " Lannigan's ball." In conclusion, I would advise •' Hastings" the next time he writes to the Stab to have a little more regard for the truth. —I am, &c,

Vebitas.

Hastings, 26th June, 1878.