THE FOX LETTER MYSTERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4786, 30 July 1894, Page 3

THE FOX LETTER MYSTERY.

The great Fox letter mystery is now known here (says the Auckland Herald) as tho Hellensvillo mystery. But It need remain a mystery no more, if Mr Q'Hara Smith would bo good enough to conie to Hclensville and examine Georgina and Boats, at the Hclensville Hotel, It is said that one facetious individual is not disinclined to make a clean breast of it, if ho cannot make clean hands. I observe that some of the Southern papers came to the conclusion that the mystery ought to havo been unveiled in this quarter, For instance, in tho evidence, Colonel Fox stated that after tho publication of tho summary, Mr Hoben told him that the letters had come down from Auckland, and that he had known thovymre coming. The Timarn "TSW^WfConcliides:—" Surely this points to Auckland as the place whero the contents of the letter was ascertained, and the information, as published, would have comedown to tho Post by the samo mail which brought the original letter, following Bomo briefer intelligence by wire." Somepatrioticandpoeticindividual at Wellington has composed a poem on tho subject, of which tho following is the concluding stanza :- Oni bono ? When the whole is said and

done, ■When to the midday sun Tho traitor thief, if such (here be, is hauled j When every civil servant has been called. When nllflic great men, all the small mcu,

All the short mra, all the tall men, Clerks and doorkeepers, Ministers and lloorswccpcrs From torrid Auckland dop to' chilly ' Bluff, . Have had their say; and when Even, the great' Panjaudruni cries "■ Enough I" What then ? The fizzle of a half tjricd simib, the puff Of a toy cpioi], for (he most of men; For {lie chief culprit, nothing; for poor Fox Nothing; for Spddon ami his kin and kith . Nothing; and for the land This thought, which ouly consolation • mocks, . We pay for Smith!