MR LIGHTBAND AT CHARLESTON.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 514, 8 June 1869, Page 2

MR LIGHTBAND AT CHARLESTON.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sir, I see by the Charleston Herald of the 3rd inst., that at the meeting recently held there, Mr Lightbaiul accused me of putting names to the petition for Separation without the knowledge or consent of parties, and that other signatures were got by me telling the miners that the petition was to obtain miners' rights for the colony, besides various other crimes of which I had been guilty. All of these I emphatically deny. My business on the Grey was known some time before I got there through the columns of the Grey River Argus, so that it was impossible for me to get miners to sign the petition without their knowledge of what tiiey were doing. It seems by the Herald of the same date that the ex-Warden not only got, to his petition, the names of those absent, but of all the youngsters and ladies of the districts he has been canvassing ; and he wants to measure my corn by his bushel. I believe he intends visiting the Bullei', and should hs do so I shall certainly take the opportunity of seeing him. In conclusion I may say that Mr Lightband seemed to be ashamed of the work in which lie is employed, for he denied to me and to several others the purpose for which he came, and took the trouble to show me the testimonial presented to him by the miners of the Grey, signed, I believe, by some ten miners, aud informed me that it was ou that account he came down. What can be thought of a man who has to get names to his own credit ?—1 am, yours, &c, Adam Porter.