CAPT RUNCIMAN & CINCINNATUS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 585, 19 February 1876, Page 3

CAPT RUNCIMAN & CINCINNATUS.

i3ia, Who is ihn c iap Cincinnatus when ho i« j*t homo? ho must; b» & cowardly pluckiest ohap 4hat dure not put his own name to what ho writer bub Ajbuuioi a fictitious name (lie seems to |>o able to say my iunxe wuhout ilia book) aim «eems terribly auiious to draw me out into a Jeugtuy ■prtpof fig' l^ which I am not noo i at, but which teems to be Cmoinomtus' " fort*." 110 ii quits a philantrophist in hit way. 1 did tay what wat printed in my name in rbe Waikato TiMK9 of the Slit December latt, and I»m propatod to back what I saul with my opinion and practical Mperience, both on Drui-y land, Mangere land, and alto Waikato Lmd whether thute.wortli much or littl?, and for b« ioforraation it It an |opimon I t'ortned 22 years »go and bate not te«n «uffioi«nt rtaaon to change now for formed opinion. Mr Jit'itor, that Mr Cinoinudtut mutt be a very ltarned man for he has written (or you have printed for him) something tli nt it not English and it id not Mum and that* as far as I e"*n go. Cmcionutus innocently oalla himself % humble petitioner, and call* upon me to be in my place in the Cambridge Farmer* Club and do my duty. I cuntell him I am always ready and willing in my humble way to do my duty at fur as I c*n, but 1 mutt koo* who or wnat o«llt m» to duty, for I punnot afford tlie time from my farm to iun after and wfiie to ove, y bobtail that holds Vp hit iingor.— l am, Ho, Jaju& KDNOiiUtf. Ftrtwodo farm, JBtk f obruary, Ui§,