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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2648, 15 July 1887, Page 2

We have no desire to evade the side issue raised by our local contemporary, and are not afraid of his red herring; but we will take it as a separatepoinfc, Our contemporary says: Before he (the Daily) asks for an apology or ventures to challenge anything, he should frankly repair the damage ho endeavored to do the Observer when he charged that journal with blackmailing. Mr Bnchaiian refuses to bear out that slanderous statement,' and if our local contemporary has a particle of decency he will make thai journal an unreserved apology, j Mr Buchanan, as wo understand it, simply refused to give the Lord'of the Lion Heart and Eagle Eye that clean certificate which was impudently asked for, Had Mi- Buchanan given our Carterton contemporary a clean certificate wo should have felt bound to repair the damage to which our Masterton contemporary alludes, Wo will ask our Carterton contemporary two plain questions,—lst, Did lie express bis willingness to support Mr Buchanan during the present election on certain conditions? find- 2nd, What were the conditions on which ho was williug to support Mr Buchanan 1 We are quite prepared to do justice to our Carterton contemporary, and even if he has sinned, we can almost excuse him ou the ground that he has been contaminated by a had example set him in another quarter, and we venture to assert that if blackmailing is gibbeted in this district our Carterton contemporary will certainly not be the chief culprit,