CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1857, 5 December 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

MR PAPWORTH IN REPLY. To the Editor, Sir,—Your anonymous scribe under the 'nom deplume'ot "Play Fair"has evidently been longing' to. take a sly stab at myself and others with his vile, pen, steeped in a concoction of mean spite and truthlessness; but the kennel under which he crouches has revealed him, Had he wished his libellous effusion to have gained evidence with the public, he should have stood out like a man, shook off that 'nbtride plume,'gently raised the dog kennel, and delivered his yarn with all the pomposity displayed by the principal in " Bombastes Furioso." "P% JFair," I shall pass over your rambling statements with reference to boys and families as subjects not to be discussed through the press,, suffice it to say that I am favorably acquainted with them, and they understand the tenor of my letter. But, Mr " Play Fair," I have a question to ask you, why did yoa not in/your place on the Committee denqujee this Bapwqrtb, and cucumber swindle. No, yqu Ijnew tha(; woujd baulk your spite, you knew you would be palled upon to substantiate the accusation which when you uttered, you knew to be false. I emphatically and : contemptuously deny your vile slander, at the samo time I refer you to Messrs Bish, Gardner, and Ben Rayner to prove that Mrs Bpetham was at least a fortnight 'previous to the show. 1 also inform you that I have never spoken to Mrs Beetham, nor have 1 the slightest knowledge of that person who you accuse me of offering my services to in the capacity of judge. I say yoiiv statement is as. untrue as it is unwarranted, and I appeal to Mr Everett the.President, aud Mr Gardner the two gentlemen that waited on me the day previous to the show to request my attendance as a judge, to prove to the public that tjjat part of your letter is us corrupt. as tjjo preceding,- !' jHay Fair" J kindly offer yon in return this bit of advioe, in ' the first place never lay a man's load upon a boy's back, secondly, if yon wish your statements to gain the minutest.tolerance, emerge from tinder that—not parallelogramatic, but cylindrical—dog kennel, and attempt to ape tho map forpnpe by attaching your autograph to future scribblings. 1 am, 4c, D, 3. Papworth, [We think this correspondence has now gone far enough, and must close our columns to any continuance of it.-ED.W.D.]