A CONTRADICTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 214, 7 March 1872, Page 6

A CONTRADICTION.

(To the Editor. )

Siii, — Your highly imaginative correspondent, " Presbyterian," in his epistle headed " Chips and Manses," has made one statement — or rather insinuation — that had better been left unsaid. He wishes your readers to infer that the C. S. Ross, late miuister of the Clyde and Alexandra Presbyterian congregations, was " starved out," and "Presbyterian" would lay the blame upon the Clyde community. This he should not do, for doubtless he knows perfectly well that with the exception of perhaps £o uncollected subscriptions, the people of Clyde honourably fulfilled the terpis of their contract with Mr. Ross, and also that the rev. gentleman resigned his care of the Clyde portion of the district of his own free will and pleasure. From a commercial point of view, if blamo can be attached to any one in the matter, some portion of it must be attributed to want of tact and conciliatory action on the part of the rev. gentleman himself. It was, in fact, the old adage verified-— between two stools, Clyde and Alexandra, he came to the ground.

As regards the present neglected condition of the manse, it is a matter of sincere regret, and should be seen to by the General Presbytery, the present owners of the It arises in some measure from the fact of its being built in an out-of-the-way place, beyond the care- of either committee. The site, however, was chosen, not by the Clyde or Alexander people, hut by the members of the Clutba Presbytery. But enough said. The writer who insinuates that the Rev. Mr. Ross was starved out is either a victim to chronic bile, or has a troublesome development of the bump of imagination. — 1 am, &c, Clyde,. March 2. ' Tktttil