THE WAIHI VERSUS "ARGUS."

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3884, 10 June 1881, Page 2

THE WAIHI VERSUS "ARGUS."

(Toini^ Saltor of iWd EveninrSl#fJ) t?.

Sib, —In refeienee" to the statement made by your Waihi correspondent in your issue of the* Bth7inßfi|tlt tlirt the prospectors had t«Weii 1 stone from the Martha claim which U estimated to be worth 20ozs per ton and the flat contra* diction given thereto by a writer hiding himself under the mask of "Argot,"4n *°«* BOBtemprary>4Maf of n this, jiorping allow me in reply to itatfe-J that jfc Was present with the two/p.ospectors and two other independent witnesses when toe stone alluding tb w«s Itrick on Friday ,last and s that I am pwpared to swear before /a S^fdatieelJll F®&*l&em>, in; the presence . ; ©f „" AfW 1, 8",-, ■n(* as many friends as he likes-is^Tiriiig, that at least lialf a ton of stone 1 Wis talta out which, in my opinion^ and^Aie opinion of all who saw it, would yilaia'itieavt at the rate of lSbzs todOoz/feVtotiJiad* furthermore, when I left Ihe'«lailb Hwo days ago, almost equally ■iidhtlitollB I%as being broken down. Again, 'the ment of the "Old West Coist«f,'V whoerer he may be, is in nd way an exaggeration, and is fully borne out by the letter of Mr J. A. Droney; as likewif* by yiinr correspondent. It is interesting to warn that " Argus " admits himself tqbe "jjo writer," and presumably only '**,» jadge of aaartz," and that being conceded your readers will no doubt weigh the Talue of his judgment, by his modest stat^jnent that ■*■■ **-lie .is -Lopen M. JpßckJ. his opinion of Wai bi against all the Droneya in Eur,QTC.":^;i|,ttjbQ jf^-» t the opinion^cf \" JLrgxi* .like that of thaPope of JKome be infallible, and his inierest for .the public welfare as great as hej>r,o(«iMs, why let me ask has l^ not si^e^epfustit wtfrajte: to^gife puWjeit^^ji^tJ^e? The action of all men like.f' Argujh diost appear Oontemptabletor»llrjght-tbn»^iiig people since hiding, himselfxira&r *jthe coter of a pseudonym, h* «oniMJik%rj|n assassin in the dark to db an: ibjiifyigto men who are simply rMpmjptlie? wvll earned reward of theif own indurtfyi A lore of fair play is one of th« •Hribirteaof most Eoglisbmen, artdi bh^t^ri-eftlter the fairness or legal right bt-« ififgltf **'%o publish false r report! calculated kL yunre the character andjrop^iy:Qt^p«T?;te indiTidaals. That. Wai hi aid; tk* Martha claim will' surVite tn* P r*fouWfiJJilW»n of our newly, discQrewd" Judge of Quartz/ I make no iboM, »*i ii this belief I append.my signature to this^and challenge " Argus " to do the sasße ian*ia neitoommunieatwa.^lfcm, <SA, T '■ -: '■■ f'//;,-ViUHfTfi i«f£OIBTJ3