The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3971, 24 November 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1891.

Ouk contemporary, still the worse for banqueiting, we will charitably suppose, refers again to the Park squabble in the following terms:

Who first suggested the picnic on that day ? What part in the transaction did Mr Joseph Pay ton play ? We are quite certain that the secretary of the Trust, Mr Sellar, did his duty, but we want to know what Mr Payton did. Mr Payton is a member of the Park Trust, and it is his duty to let the public know whether he is responsible in any way for letting the oval on the quiet, and whether it is due to any action of his. that the notice of motion given by Mr F. G. Moore at last meeting of the Trust has had to be tabled.

In answer, we may say (1) Mr Payton never made any suggestion about holding a picnic o.i Boxing or any other day. (2) Mr Payton did nothing beyond instructing the Secretary to carry out the rule under which the Park was let. (8) Mr Payton is not responsible for letting the Park on the quiet. (4) Mr F. G. Moore's notice of motion is not due to any action taken by Mr Payton. Our local contemporary is a pattern mis • chief-maker. He has, we understand, been put right by the Secretary, as to certain matters of fact about which, apparently, some one had hoaxed him, but knowing full well that he has found a mare's nest he still tries by innendo to suggest that Mr Payton has, in some way or other, committed himself If he has anything to say let him speak right out, it be has nothing it is little use his making a wretched pretence of a sham charge, and trusting to that bounce and impudence for which the member for Masterton is so distinguished to make it stick. If he knows anything to Mr Pay ton's discredit in connection with the Park Trust, we challenge him either to speak out: plainly or to hold his scurrilous tongue.