REPLY TO NATIVE.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir. — Native wants to know more about the library and the proposed ro.id works. Perhaps if he made enquires of some of the members of the town bo ml they might enlighten him. He has the iir.perti nence to advise me to be le-s personal in •my remarks, if they are too personal he must only put up with it ; he was personal enough in his attack on me, and I take' it I have a perfect right to be so also. Fear of the consequences will not prevent my giving my opinion of him. I repeat that Mr Moncrieff did know the case was >^ to be suppressed for I told him so in the presence of others. His memory must be very defective. Oui^statemend of Native's I must deny, that is, that I insinuated he ia not a gentleman. I had no uecessity to do ao; no one who read his letter would be foolish enough to mistake him for one. In conclusion I may tell him I decline to have any further correspondence with him. " One cannot touch pitch without being defiled." — I am, Sir, &c, Your Kihikihi Correspondent. [This must end this controversy.— Jsn ]
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1895, 28 August 1884, Page 3
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203REPLY TO NATIVE. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1895, 28 August 1884, Page 3
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