BOND V. KENNEDY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2561, 8 December 1888, Page 2

BOND V. KENNEDY.

TO THE EDITOR. _ ( j Sir,—ln your issue of to-day Mr Gresham again refers to this case. With reference to the first part where he talks of righteous indignation, wrath, &c, it is too silly and childish to notice. I still maiutain that my report was correct and that leave to appeal was not refused by the R.M. As regards Mr Gresham's statement that my reports have been biassud in Mr Hay s favour, it is perfectly untrue and without the slightest foundation, a fact of which Mr Gresham was perfectly aware when he wrote. I challenge him to produce a single report or letter of mine during all the years I have been reporting, in which there is any bias whatever shown. The falsehood he has written is oither the result of malice—a belief many who know Mr Gresham incline to—or the fact of finding himself for once on the winning side, the novelty of which has so disturbed his mental equilibrium, that he was not altogether responsible for his actions for some weeks after this, to him, important and rsd letter day. His postcript shows his cowardly nature, behind which he shelters himself. He knows his statements to be utterly false and so he takes this contemptible way of wriggling out of any challenge to prove the truth of his slandeis. —I am Sir, &c. Your Reporter. Te Awamutu, Gth December, 1888. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l adhere to all that I stated in my last letter, and wish to add that your Te Awamutu correspondent has not, to my knowledge, at any time, given other than fair reports of law cases in which I have been engaged. I should not have replied to Mr Gresham's last production had it not contained an inuendo, challenging my veracity, and I am forced to the conclusion that this mode of attack has been chosen by the gallant lieutenant in fear that in these days of tho revival of chivalry, plainer speaking would lead to a castigation. As to the comparative degree of veracity of myself and Mr Gresham, let the public judge; and in forming a judgment I ask them to take into consideration the facts that I have lived all my life in the colony (45 years), and my history is easily ascertainable, and that Mr Gresham is a man whose history is before the New Zealand public to the extent of twelve years only out of probably fiO. Under these cirenmstances. t think it fair to ask your readers to satisfy themselves on the following questions before arriving at a conclusion : _i. Was the name Thomas Gresham on the manifest of the ship in which Mr Gresham, of Te Awamutu, left Kngland for New Zealand, in the year 1877. 2. If it was not were there any cogent reasons why it should not appear ? 3. Was his departure from England unduly accelerated by any circiimstanoes which happened about the end of the year 187<>, or the beginning of 1877? -1. If his departure was so accelerated what events immediately preceeded it, and became factors in such acceleration ? When the public are satisfied upon these questions, I am prepared to take a back seat for veracity, and allow Mr Gresham to pose as the veritable George Washington ef these parts. It is a delusion to suppose that the caveers of poisons coming from Kngland to New Zealand are unknown, and it is unwise of those who have a past to invite a close inspection of it.—Yours trulv, Wji. Macgregor Hay.