MR LUCKIE RE MR O'CONOR.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 983, 28 June 1872, Page 3

MR LUCKIE RE MR O'CONOR.

(Nelson Colonist.) Sie, —The ' Examiner,' in what purports to be a report of the proceedings at the meeting called by Mr O'Conor and his six requisitionists, closes its report of my brief remarks as follows : " Mr Luckie, after repeatedly attempting to criticise some remarks made by Mr O'Conor at a recent meeting of the Council, was so thoroughly hissed that he was compelled to desist." This is the last sentence given in the report of my speech. The fact is the main portion of my remarks were made after I had criticised those of Mr O'Couor's referred to. What I did quote was unquestionably hissed ; but, with the exception of the small knot of requisitionists, and their genial friends, the hissing came from those who directed it not at me, but at the outrageous impiety of Mr O'Conor's words. He had been impious enough to draw a parallel between himself and a great personage who died on Calvary eighteen centuries ago. That was the sentiment which was hissed, and that sentiment I did criticise by adding I that "Mr O'Conor might have drawn | ajuster and less revolting parallel, in-" I asmuch as there were two others who were executed on that memorable occasion, and one of them died impeniteut." The ' Examiner' also reports that the resolution at the meeting in favor of a memorial to the Governor, for further enquiry, was " carried almost unanimously." This is another grave tnis-statement. In an audience of some four hundred people, only about Aty hands were held up, if so many, and seven or eight against it; and if I had not supported the resolution, because, like Mr Reid, I courted the fullest possible enquiry, I undertake tosay that not half the number would h'?e aided the passing of the motion. to further gross untruths which the' Examiner' has chosen to publish from MrO'Conor's mouth, that journal, ; as now conducted, so warps facts, and, ?°gry by defeat, and to serve the I limited party at its back, so maligns rt» opponents, and so distorts just conclusions, that I am surprised at nothing }tmay print. True to its old traditions, its reports are still garbled and distorted, and the people it opposes are *)1 misrepresented. In this case, "us misrepresentation is in the service tod interest of a man like Mr O'Conor, i a whom, although a good deal has

recently been heard, the public as suredly have not yet heard the last. I am, &c, D. M. Luckie. Nelson, June 20, 1872.