LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 7, Issue 375, 24 December 1863, Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Wanganui, December 19, 1863. Sib.,- —In your paper of the 17th instant, referring to the House occupied by me having been entered and ransacked, you make use »f the words, “ in this last case there can be little doubt the thieves were military ones.” Upon what authority you make this statement I am at a loss to find out, as I am certain you never heard me say anything to justify such a suspicion, and 1 am confident no others than the intended thieves themselves can say it was military men or civilians, who, I presume, are as capable of doing such things as military men. As a Red Coat I feel aggrieved at the tone expressed under the head Local Intelligence, as I believe the assertions concerning us are untrue. The iusertion of this in your next issue will greatly oblpg , Your obedient servant, James Mount, R.E. [Mr. Mount’s description to us of the manner in which his knapsack had been taken to pieces aud the various places in which soldiers keep their valuables ransacked, seemed so clearly to point to some military man as the thief, that an. artilleryman present at once made a remark to that effect; and Mr. M.’s rejoinder, that the office not being touched showed it was some one who both knew the premises and was aware that there was nothing worth stealing among the Government paper?, appeared to indicate a similar idea in his own mind.]

] Buller River Gold-Fields.— Such | Persons as may be sceptical regardin' l ’ the exceeding richness in gold of the Buller and its tributary valleys we invite i to an inspection of the window of our office, where they will see several nuggets of pure gold, all obtained from that disj trict, weighing respectively fifty.two i ounces, twenty-eight ounces, eighteen ! ounces, seventeen ounces, and a large : number of nuggets from fifteen flown L> three and two ounces each. Such a dis-

play of gold was never before seen in New Zealand, but to have rendjrecl it complete, the one hundred and eight on nee n -igget, carried away a few day.-! ago by i he lucky finder to Australia, should have been present with the others —kelson Examiner.