CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2680, 22 August 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[To the Editor;.]

'Sir.— 1 ' It is not generally known," ••'lt.is rumoured" ■ Under phrases like these anonymous.purveyors of falsehoods, who have not even the hardihood to tell a straight lie, seek to cover their retreat in case of discovery. That you'.should give currency to such, mendacity is not surprising. It is the natural sequence of. the conduct of your journal : through' the election. Your memory is. ...not so short but. that you. can . recollect .the correspondence-.',, published, in your columns,. if. I remember rightly, about two years .ago, between Messrs Keisenberg, Bacoii and myself on the very qulistioij' of"tuis " Freethought." You must. know':' that' the statement that I offered to. bo President of-an. Association whoso.; ideas I publicly opposed'is absolutely, untrue. To what niU3t a cause be ireduced which is catching at such base .weapons as -tliis to assault an opponent. .-. -■■■:■ lam, etc.,... : ;; ' ; ; •; , :Eobert Si Hawkins. [We; wiU.tell Mr. Hawking not what •' "we'mustknow"'butwhat" 1 ' 1 wo do know." We;.do -know that'there'is a •. substantial v'foi"- the charge made by pur coirespoiident against Mr Hawkins, and! we'.' will make it : our business-,to bring ■it homo to him.—Ed. \V; P.];.