MR SUTTON IN REPLY TO MESSRS D. MAUNSELL AND THOS. W. TELFORD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 19 July 1884, Page 2

MR SUTTON IN REPLY TO MESSRS D. MAUNSELL AND THOS. W. TELFORD.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir.—l only saw your issue of the 15th inst, yesterday, and hasten to reply to a letter therein, and also to make a remark or two re your Ugliest and most disinterested authority, Mr Dan MaunseH. With regard to Mr Telford 1 beg first to thank him for admitting .that Mr Beetham has just placed him under, a great personal obligation and it. is only natural that he should display his gratitudeJbut I think he might have found a more marily means of displaying it besides telling unmitigated falsehoods to injure me, - the same applies to the other specimen of humanity Mr D. Maunsell. I now. challenge Mr Telford to state plainly what the three reasons alleged to have caused my dismissal are, With regard Jo his bejiig dispensed' with I have only to say that Mr Telford • knows the reason why Inspector Richardson ; was sent from Wellington to assist me, and lam prepared to give them'if necessary, The fact of Mr Richardson, being sent up, however proves that the staff was not' lessened by Mr Telford's leaving the service. With regard to mv being hounded from the Gear Company, I fair to recollect the ' indiscreet action" referred |# by Mr Telford and I would thank him to publish it, I however ask your readers to remember that! Mr Telford admits that Mr Beeehara has placed him under a great personal obhgation; and that his (Telford's) attack on me looks | very much like payment for service rendered, lam, &c, W. A. P; Sutton, [We have known Mr Telford some ten years, and are Bure that he is incapable of ; : deliberate misrepresentation. Mr Sutton's coarse charge against him of telling unmitigated falsehoods, is altogether.l unworthy of serious consideration,—!!!). • w.d.] , -.;;•

TO THE EDITOR, Sib,—With reference to the remarks in the Wairarapa Star that I have been employed to lay bare the Beorets of the department from which I was expelled, I

teg:to say that since. January 1883 : I have had ho tionneotiomfyith ,the Sheep Depart* 'Merit, and oonsetniently,.! have not been expelled from that nor frorrii any other office', and I mbßt distinctly deny 'that anyone asked me or employed me to make public the facta • relating to Mr Sutton's case as stated in the paragraph forwarded fqr publiction. ."•''••' »~

The fact that I was bo unfottunate' as to : lose original receipts and doouments relating thereto, and was thus prevented' from completing the official accounts at the periods and in the forms reqniredby the regulations, enabled the Audit Office to institute pro ceedihga' against me : these have been dismissed and withdrawn. In common justice I ask my fellow settlete to believe lit impossible that, after having worked hard, and at moon pecuniary loss to myself, for eight years to help to promote the local industries of the colony, anything i but accident could have placed me in the' unenviable position whioh tho existing state of the law rendered possible.' • I have, Ac, , . 17th July, 1884, D. Matoeh,.