AUDI ALTERAMPARTEM.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 5

AUDI ALTERAMPARTEM.

(To the Editor.)

i Srn,~Ypur Dunedin correspondent, ha i thought\fit ,to belabour me \j\th e*p thef 8 ;oT ttVe ' most\ scurrilous kihff t - thi ough- your, columns^ of 'date Dec. 2,& ,1871: r '£ wl-iter^ who taxes me \v^ h , " "profanity and' vituperative bu lkum "* , sltohi'd, methirik^' not, \je *gu lty afHyb.atfhe censures m another. fildeecl, 'thMU.did convene: aw<L 'address 'a 1 m|i?s ."Aocting 'of the cjti zhn9, : iii " thef IDetagon. 'i. did so belc atrse ihepress^bere is not free for public, discussion./ The. burden" -of my address was th r e examinations of the ' so^alled/Ftilivers'ity *md High S.chpol.» £.' <£lid not— as your correspondent*.: falsely alleges-^" characterise the High* School as.a school of immorality" ; .but I did say, and Jf now repeat it/that tKe. physical educatpn/the^yjßnaatie. ex... er'cises, and theJdramatic exhibitions of the High. School had a pernicious and

immoral tendency*— I lifted up my voice against" the fulsome aud false laudation of. those institutions, and denied, ,and d6 a *till deny, the statemrnts of the -Rector- and of the Vice-Chancellor of the -University, to wit, that tk4te were ibo High School pupils at the' University. There were actually eighteen lhds, including the son of the Vice-Chancellor, who gor their edu«-atian at the former institution attending the night classes of the latterjjjseminSry. Why they carried ro" honours in such a limited arena, amid students past the meril'an of life. I leave them and the public to determine. In justice to myself and for the sake of many of my friends, who are also your subscribers, I crave respectfully a corner for these few lines. The press of this Colony is ever ready to abuse me, albeit it never, or at least very seldom, does me justice when commenting upon my sayings and doings. However, it will be nil one a hundred years after this Meanwhile, when reviled, let me not revile again, but commit myself to G-od whojudgeth righteously. As to the ridiculous assertion "of my fiankiutr G-od that I was born a Highlandman," that was uttered when I was comment ing upon the difference between British md Colonial students — a difference a^ real and marked as there is betwepn the oak and the blue gum. — Yours &c.

J. G. **. ftBANr.