CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3879, 6 August 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(to the editor.) Sib, —In your issue of yesterday, it is stated that the wall of the new brick building which is in course-of construction for Mr T. 0. Williams, at Pahiatua, was blown down on Sunday by the high wind then blowing. To avoid any mistakes I should be obliged if you will mention that the wall referred to is not a part of the block of shops and dwellings recently finished for Mr Williams, but a green wall standing in an exposed position as a part wall for a blacksmith's shop now being erected. lam, ets., 0. TILLEARD NaTUSOH.

[to the editob.] Sir.—lt is commonly reported that a section of the Borough Council is endeavouring to stuff the Burgess Roll. If this is allowed, it will be a great injustice to several ratepayers, who were prevented from votingJn the last election, although they ujtite, application to be put upon three weeks before the election. Further, if this irregularity is allowed it will invalidate the forthcoming eleotion, and in the interests of all parties it is very undesirable to continue the present unsettled state of affairs.—Yours, etc., John Dukes. [We hear that the question of adding certain names to the voters roll has been referred to Mr Bunny, the Borough Solicitor, and that his advice will be acted upon. This ia not roll stuffing!— Ed. W.D.]

An Absolut* Falsehood. [TO THE EDITOR.I Sib,—The occupant ot the Star Hctel informs me to-day that Mr Pownall is her solicitor. It ia to him then that she is indebted for having ber house thrust before the gaze of the public at this opportune time. Mr • Pownall has such unbounded confidencn in the fulness of knowledge veracity of Mrs Emma Leonard that on the ground of her statement he mounted the Btage at the Theatre on Tuesday evening and denounced some, thing that I had said " as an absolute falsehood." Mrs Emma Leonard's solicitor never asked any explanation from me ; her testimony was so overwhelmingly convincing that there was no room for doubt. " The absolute falsehood " was that I had sent a desti* tute man to the Star Hotel to be cared for at my expense. Your reader* can judge whether Mr Pownall'a conduct is that of a gentleman or a ruffian from a simple statement of facts. A number of months ago on a Wednesday evening I asked Mr Harry McLeod, late in the employ of Mr George Heron, to lead over to the Star a poor drink victim to be cared for at my expense. I had fed the poor fellow and talked seriously with him and was planning to try and help him into work. The next morning I went oyer to the Star and paid the few shillings of expense incurredjon this man's behalf and made him promise to see me later in the day. But his drink surroundings were too much for him and from my grasp. I learned from this experience never a drink victim in the hanHPlf a publican if I could possibly help it. Such are the facts of the case. At tbe close of Mr Pownall's display of Mayoral courtesy on leaving the in? Mr Jago, cabinetmaker, stated that he was present in the Star Hotel on this particular morning and remembered my visit. He states that the person at the bar that morning was a Miss Furness, and it would accordingly be to thi3 person that I paid the money. If Mr Pownall takes the trouble to visit Mr Harry McLeod's employer, Mr George Heron, it may dawn upon his mind that the "absolute falsehood" rests on himself or on the client whose knowledge and veracity he so implicitly trusts. It is with no desire to vindicate my veracity from Mr Pownall's slanders that I write this. wUh to protest against the Mayoral office being degraded by such heartless and impudent slanders. It is therefore in the interest of the public that I write. Aa regards the repiesentative of the Star who tried to support Mr Pownall in my slander.l havo nothing to say. Like Mr Pownall he is a supporter of tho moderate party. The occupants of the Star don't like tho Prohibitionists. With a committee whose polioy is different the Star license weuld be sure. lam, etc, Eobert Wood. Manse, Aug., 1891